Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three other top congressional tax writers-Rostenkowski, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Republican Barber Conable of New York-to an intimate luncheon in an ornate hideaway office next to the Senate chamber long favored for bourbon and branch-water sessions. Democrats and Republicans often meet to iron out differences in legislation already passed. Rarely, however, do they assemble to work out joint legislation in advance of any vote, as they did last week...
...resulting lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ordered a new election, with all names on the ballot, to be held in July 1969. Blacks won all of the contested positions. A year later, Branch won the job of probate judge from the man who had kept blacks off the ballot. In the same election, Gilmore became sheriff. Says Branch: "I used to tell my students to prepare themselves, that they could some day be elected to public office. They looked at me like I was a graduate of an insane asylum...
...other areas can duplicate these gains. Explains Assessor Kennard: "We came through it all. But there's Pickens County to the north with a majority of black residents but no black elected officials, and Hale County, which has just begun with black membership on the county commission." Judge Branch adds that failure to renew the act could lead to backsliding. Says he: "It would turn back the clock on a lot of the progress...
...diplomatic pressure on Israel, meanwhile, also seemed to be paying off. After talks with Ambassador Lewis, Begin suddenly muted his tone. Holding out an olive branch of sorts, the Prime Minister now declared: "We don't want war with Syria and we think Syria has reasons not to want war with Israel." Even more significant, perhaps, was Begin's statement that Israel had no official confirmation of any Syrian missile deployments in Lebanon. His refusal to acknowledge the presence of the missiles was possibly calculated to give Damascus a face-saving chance to remove them without appearing...
...gave the game the garish doubleknit uniforms that became commonplace. He harassed his managers by telephoning strategy to the dugout, yet installed a 16-year-old fan as vice president. For all his buffoonery, Finley was as shrewd a judge of talent as any in the sport since Branch Rickey. Roll the names over in the mind: Jackson, Rudi, Bando, Hunter, Fingers, Blue. But he lost them all, and others, because he was unwilling to pay them well. Toward the end, he ordered that his players' half-fare airline coupons be collected as they stepped off the planes from...