Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Frank Burns was chairman of Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers when he first met Richard Nixon in 1953. Burns made no secret of his admiration for the then Vice President. In March of 1960, after he had returned to his old professorial post at Columbia University, Burns went down to Washington to alert Nixon to his own reading of the economy-based on his knowledge as a top expert on the business cycle. His warning: a recession was under way, and would reach its nadir in October, just before the presidential elections. "Unfortunately," Nixon later wrote...
...decision was a result of Monday's Radcliffe Council meeting at which two students presented arguments for coed housing. It was the first time the Council, composed of ten trustees and Mrs. Bunting, has discussed the issue...
Although the Council has final authority, it has called the trustees' meeting to ask their view on the subject. "The Council thought this was a suggestion which really should be considered seriously," Mrs. Bunting said yesterday. The trustees usually meet only three times a year...
...trustees and the Council record themselves in favor of coed housing, Mrs. Bunting will approach the Harvard Administration to discuss the issue further...
...Schwartz and Stoia leveled charges of inaction at the Council, they were backed by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci. But the "servants of the rich" charge by Schwartz brought the pride of East Cambridge storming to his feet. "Do you know me so well that you can make a charge like that?" Vellucci roared. "I walked in picket lines long before you, and don't you dare tag Al Vellucci with being a servant of the rich, I don't know who your father is, but my father was a poor immigrant, and I have eight children to support. And where...