Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whenever possible, the court decided the case on the narrower ground of authorization. But in an opinion shared by Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan and Potter Stewart (Justices Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan and Charles Evans Whittaker wrote a more limited concurrence). Chief Justice Warren seemed to warn that any authorized program that did not contain some provision for confrontation and cross-examination might violate "certain principles relatively immutable in our jurisprudence," i.e., be unconstitutional...
...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
Minutes after being introduced to Mazo, Warren attacked a passage of the book that opened up one of the old sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
Still at work in the Governors' favor is the same old chemistry that has kept either party from nominating a U.S. Senator since Republicans put up Ohio's Warren Gamaliel Harding for President in 1920. Senators make enemies in their votes on controversial issues, and this year's crop is no exception (e.g., the Democratic vote against confirmation of Lewis Strauss as Commerce Secretary). Moreover, presidential candidates in the Senate are having a great deal of trouble keeping their luster in the current squabble over Democratic Party policy (see The Congress) and are suffering from overexposure...
Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, teacher......................................... Litt.D...