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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sedita refused to reappoint Mrs. Slominski to the city's school board because of her blunt opposition to using buses to help integrate the schools...
THOUGH he is normally one of the more obscure figures in Washington, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has greater influence over the daily lives of all U.S. citizens than almost anyone except the President who appoints him. By performing some of the more arcane maneuvers in the realm of finance-raising or lowering bank reserve requirements, buying or selling Government securities-the Federal Reserve controls the supply of credit and the level of interest rates. It thus largely determines how much interest the consumer must pay to borrow for a new house or car, how much the businessman...
...past 18 years, the seven-member board has been headed by William McChesney Martin, 62, who has become almost as much a fixture in the capital as the Washington Monument. But his term in the $42,500-a-year job ends on Jan. 31, and by law he cannot be reappointed. Last week President Nixon announced his choice as successor to Democrat Martin. The new economic maestro is Arthur Frank Burns, 65, a self-described "moderate Republican," a longtime close aide of Nixon, and a stubborn anti-inflationist. For at least the next four years, the nation's money...
...into teaching has risen to 138, deferments for these positions are not in fact automatic. Further, while the number of men taking jobs on graduation has also risen, probably only a very small proportion of these are being deferred for so doing. The policy on occupational deferments varies from board to board...
Disenssing the group's participation, Henry D. Fetter '71, Harvard-YPSL executive board member, said YPSL hopes to revive "the old New Deal coalition of labor unions, blacks, lower middle-class whites, and the liberal middle class...