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...both being pushed by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany: Harvard's John Dunlop, 62, to return to the Labor Department he headed effectively until he quit in a policy dispute with President Ford, and U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, 65, to become Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Andrew Brimmer, 50, one of the nation's most distinguished economists-and a black-is considered a possible Secretary of the Treasury. So, too, are Peter Peterson, 50, a Commerce Secretary dropped by former President Nixon; Robert Roosa, 58, an Under Secretary of the Treasury in the Kennedy Administration; and Arthur...
...statement Brimmer added that although he was leaving the academic community for now, he would continue to accept invitations to lecture at colleges and universities and perform public service oriented work...
...Brimmer had been dealing with the demand for his consulting services on a part-time basis following his resignation from the Federal Reserve Board in August, 1974. Under the Federal Reserve Act, a member of the board who resigns before the expiration of the appointed term must wait two years before he or she can perform consultation duties connected with member banks and other financial institutions...
...September 1 of this year Brimmer will be free of that obligation, and in his statement he said that he would pursue consultation as part of his firm's activities...
After serving in the army during World War II, Brimmer entered the University of Washington intent on a career in journalism, but later found economics more to his liking and switched fields. He won a Fulbright Fellowship to India in 1951, deferring admission to Berkeley and Harvard graduate schools, and on returning to the United States he entered Harvard Business School and received his Ph.D...