Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Loeb sees Red under many a bed, he is not always allied with the far-right fringe. He considers the John Birch Society's Robert Welch a "bloody nut," for example, and often offends fellow conservatives by supporting organized labor. Loeb pioneered in newspaper profit sharing at the Union Leader in 1949, and will leave the paper to the employees when he dies. "I don't believe in inherited wealth," he says, but admits that he leaned heavily on his family's resources to acquire his first paper, the St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger...
...FRANK M. BIRCH, D.V.M. Warsaw...
William Rehnquist of Arizona, a Goldwaterite who is an Assistant Attorney General under John Mitchell, was not so well received. His opponents, led by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, seized upon a memo written by Rehnquist in 1952, when he was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, as evidence that Rehnquist was against civil rights. In the memo, he had argued that the separate but equal doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court in 1896 was "right and should be reaffirmed." When Rehnquist countered that the view expressed was that of Justice Jackson, a civil libertarian, Bayh...
...Agriculture, won Senate confirmation, 51-44. At first it looked as though Butz might be beaten. Butz was vulnerable because he seemed more sympathetic to big agribusiness than to the smaller farmers. Still, enough Democrats went along to confirm him-including, oddly, such Midwestern liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with an Agriculture Secretary unpopular with a farm constituency that could be crucial to the election. But the real rub with the farmers is low corn...
...powerful Philadelphia family that controls Sun Oil and chairman of that company's executive committee; in Ardmore, Pa. He took over the firm in 1912, when he succeeded his father, Sunoco Founder Joseph N. Pew, as president. Though for a time a supporter of the John Birch Society, his penchant for privacy made him one of the nation's least-known industrial giants...