Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual meetings, said scholars who have attended the three-day retreats in the past, speakers spend five or 10 minutes making short presentations and then the congressmen and academics have informal discussions. Aside from the budget, those in attendance often discuss electoral politics, they said...
Already the University's campaign strategy has been publicly condemned by 21 student groups. Massachusetts Congressmen Joseph Kennedy II and Barney Frank have both called on the University to back off, as have the Boston and Cambridge City Councils, all eight Harvard unions, the Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women and several alumni...
Indeed it was. As the guns sounded overseas, gallus-snapping Congressmen and dollar-a-year New Dealers, bullnecked racists and high-toned society hostesses, secretaries and alphabet-soup bureaucrats from the OPA, BEW, CAS and OEM all began to audition for their roles in history. The little Southern town abruptly became an arena of contradictions, and Brinkley surveys them...
...campaign drags on, the real race may devolve into a scavenger hunt for delegates. The particular target will be the 646 super-delegates -- those party leaders, Congressmen and state and local officials who will go to the convention nominally uncommitted. Says Mark Siegel, the national committeeman from Maryland: "We're being plastered with literature and state poll results. We're being told about trains and stations." But the departure of trains is not much of a threat when their engines have yet to build up much steam. So for now most party powers, like many voters, are waiting...
...wanted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. The result has been that Black Southerners are now the fastest growing voter population in the nation and are finally able to exercise some influence in the democratic process--which has been most notably demonstrated by the election of liberal Southern congressmen who shot down Judge Robert Bork's nomination and by Jesse Jackson's successful organizing efforts...