Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of the grad boards. Steve Oxman, president of the Undergraduate Council (UGC) and the prime mover in the Bicker revolt, said that Newman told him that even if 100 per cent of the undergraduates favored the new proposals, the grad ICC wouldn't budge. Only three grad board chairmen said that they would approve of changing Bicker, and then only if the Grad ICC and the UGC were nearly unanimous in their backing...
...many complex, expensive programs already enacted. He said roughly the same thing last year-and was largely ignored. This year, because they reflect the current mood of Congress so well, his remarks were greeted as a bellwether. "It occurs to me," said Mansfield in a letter to 17 committee chairmen, "that the next Congress will see the convergence of a unique opportunity with a great need for a concentrated Senate exercise of the oversight function. I would hope to see the beginning of a major re-examination of what we have done in legislation during the past few years. Considering...
...Washington, a group of 100 Negro clergymen declared that efforts to punish Powell had stirred a "sense of outrage" among the nation's 22 million Negroes, demanded "a thorough investigation of the practices of all committee chairmen and their members...
...prevent just this, a tax hike was urged privately but none too effectively by Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and publicly by such former CEA chairmen as Walter Heller, Arthur Burns and Raymond Saulnier, as well as the Federal Reserve's Chairman William McChesney Martin. Johnson rejected the advice. Administration insiders say that the President took soundings on Capitol Hill and decided that he could not persuade Congress to pass a tax increase in an election year. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills and Senate Finance Chairman Russell Long opposed...
...Along with four new vice chairmen: General Electric President Fred J. Borch, B. F. Goodrich President J. Ward Keener, Federated Stores President Ralph Lazarus and Hewlett-Packard Chairman David Packard...