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...Directors also voted down a request by the United Ministry to Students to seat a representative on the Board. The Ministry reportedly feels that religious organizations are not well represented in the recommended list of charities. The President of the Student Council, a Council representative, the Drive's co-chairmen, the Presidents of the CRIMSON and WHRB, and the PBH Publicity Director serve on the HCC Board...
...last year, almost everyone, including President Eisenhower, the Justice Department, the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and the federal bench, was agreed on the urgent need for more federal judgeships. The number of federal judges had been increased by 26% since 1941, but the case load had soared by 60% over the same period, and the swelling backlog of pending civil cases amounted to nearly a year's work for the federal courts. Thousands of U.S. citizens, argued Attorney General William P. Rogers, were being "denied justice because of delay...
...gaudy legends of the House Rules Committee, Kansas Republican Philip Campbell occupies a niche as the crustiest of that committee's traditionally crusty chairmen. In the early 1920s Campbell sported a Napoleonic curl in the middle of his forehead and had a personality to match, using the obstructive powers of the Rules Committee to block any legislation that he took a dislike to. When he saw fit, Campbell defied a majority of his own committee. If other committee members passed a resolution okaying a bill for floor action against his wishes, he would exercise a personal "pocket veto...
...constantly reiterated news that President-elect Kennedy was "seriously considering" installation in the Pentagon of a man who has for years opposed recial integration not only in the schools but also in the armed services seemed a distressing anomaly among careful and intelligent appointments. To be sure, the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee were all for the idea, but Senator Russell and Representative Vinson have both in their time displayed the milk-white segregationist crest, and both, of course, are Georgians...
Yesterday's total amounted to a little over $2,500 in what co-chairmen Michael H. P. Belknap '63 and Thomas C. Jones, Jr. '63, formed a "really tremendous effort." The co-chairman called the House captains "they key to the drive" in the five day solleciting...