Word: chairmen
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Game Plan at Half Time. In a paper prepared for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Arthur Okun, Gardner Ackley and Walter Heller, all former Chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers, predicted that the auto increase could make "dismal reading" out of October price figures. Even that paper, however, conceded that inflation "at last shows signs of ebbing." The business slowdown engineered by the Nixon Administration has clearly wrung much excess demand out of the economy...
...they fight for a homogeneous public philosophy, Democrats may ask whether this requires a realignment of the parties. Galbraith caught hell for suggesting a purge of the Southern bloc, which would mean allowing the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen. If the legislative branch is in the hands of a conservative coalition, he argues, then the minority liberals must expose and attack the conservative power centers of Southern legislators. He excepted the Senate and, presumably, Senator Fulbright. The objective of a Southern purge, though, might also be accomplished through Congressional reform of the seniority...
...Three members of the organization will be working with the Faculty Committee on the Status of Women, named jast June by Dean Dunlop. The committee, of which Caroline Bynum, assistant professor of History, and Michael Walzer, professor of Government, are co-chairmen, will hold open hearings this fall and distribute questionnaires to male and female graduate students and alumni...
Strauss took umbrage at a book by Galbraith, Who Needs the Democrats? published early this summer, in which Galbraith suggested that liberal Democrats allow the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen there in order to break the power of conservative Democratic congressmen such as Rep. L. Mendel Rivers...
Strauss took umbrage at a book by Galbraith, Who Needs the Democrats? published early this summer, in which Galbraith suggested that liberal Democrats allow the Republicans to organize the House of Representatives and name the committee chairmen there in order to break the power of conservative Democratic congressmen such as Rep. L. Mendel Rivers...