Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The reason for the sudden decline in popularity is McGovern's chairmanship of a special commission investigating-and finding-abuses in the selection of convention delegates. Born of the Chicago convention's tumult and disillusionment, the commission was set up by the party leadership as a sop to...
Political Laundry. The McGovern group has angered local party chieftains by its failure to follow protocol in notifying them when it was holding hearings in their states and by its determination to change undemocratic processes of delegate selection. Texas' Governor Preston Smith, incensed when he learned from newspaper articles...
McGovern once considered resigning, but remained on the job because he believes that only a truly democratic party offers young activists "a hopeful alternative to going to the streets." He readily admits that the commission offended some leaders, but argues that the party's shortcomings are too important to...
Chemical and biological weapons are now being tested by at least 13 nations, including Britain, France, and Sweden, as well as the U.S. and Russia. The situation obviously calls for international control agreements. Pending that millennium, the U.S. probably has no choice except to continue investigating potential C-B weapons...
Mrs. Sniadach's lawyers argued that be cause she was given no chance to dispute her debt in court before her pay check was cut, she was deprived of her property without the processes guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Supreme Court...