Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since politicians from the Deep South long had no chance of rising to the presidency, they concentrated on holding power through the Congress. Elect 'em young and keep 'em there was the credo?and for most of this century, Southern House and Senate committee chairmen, who attained their positions through seniority, were effective against civil rights legislation. Now the Southern death grip on committee chairmanships is weakening. In the Senate, three key chairmen are expected to retire in 1979: Mississippi's James Eastland, 71 (Judiciary), Alabama's John Sparkman, 76 (Foreign Relations), and Arkansas' John McClellan, 80 (Appropriations). Mississippi...
...Public Health will begin this fall to consider asking its faculty members for some kind of catalogue of their outside work. Howard H. Hiatt '44, dean of the School, said earlier this month he plans to raise the suggestion before the administrative board, a panel which includes all departmental chairmen. Hiatt said having the list might be a "very health thing," although he added that making it public may not be wise. Both Stare and the acting chairman of the Nutrition Department, Robert P. Geyer, also said they have no objection to such a listing if it is not made...
...constituency outside a few friends in Texas." Connally has not run for office in ten years and, even if Ford picks him as his running mate, he probably could not bring heavily Democratic Texas into Ford's electoral total. Already a group of ten Northeastern Republican state chairmen are considering a plea to Ford that he bypass Connally as a running mate. Insisted one of Connally's most prominent rivals for the vice-presidential nomination: "Connally would be a disaster. He's got the milk fund, he's got the wheeler-dealer image...
...nomination in four years. He spent the intervening time campaigning for local Republican candidates, particularly in the sunbelt, picking up IOU's wherever he went. So when Rockefeller emerged with his inevitable polls showing him beating Johnson in '68, it hardly mattered--Nixon had the GOP county chairmen. Rockefeller tried to offset Nixon's advantage with a $4.6 million media blitz and a new set of polls. But after the assassination of Robert Kennedy it was too late--Nixon had run in the primaries, and Rockefeller was trying to run in thepolls. The party leaders resented...
...took over a party that, in Mr. Dooley's crack, was not on speaking terms with itself. The party's liberal wing distrusted Strauss as a Texan who walked a line to the right of center. But he has proved to be one of the most effective chairmen in memory-an excellent fund raiser and conciliatory referee...