Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader, Ford shook up his publicity operation. Swedish-born Margita White, 39, taciturn director of the White House Office of Communications, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission. The President replaced her with David Gergen, 34, a former Nixon speechwriter and highly regarded special counsel to Ford, and made it clear that the Office of Communications would wield considerably more power; it is expected to grow from half a dozen professional staffers to as many...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s board of directors of waging a "campaign of vilification" against him concerning his honesty, his health and his competence. He said he had tried to laugh off the allegations. "But how does one laugh when his heart is breaking?" At first, Wilkins went on, "I retained counsel with a view to entering suits in the courts against certain board members for defamation of character." Though he has abandoned that plan, he said, he will stay in his job until the mid-1977 convention, which will be held in his birthplace, St. Louis...
...executions are immediately in prospect, but the Governors of Florida, Georgia and Texas are all known to favor capital punishment. Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, was disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
...flat rate would have an "inflationary impact" which would affect private institutions such as hospitals and private colleges, Walter P. Muther, vice president and general counsel of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a group opposed to the referendum, said yesterday...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said Wednesday that Harvard has no knowledge of Palmer's involvement in Richards's investigation. In a June 3 statement, Steiner said Richards had acted independently in his efforts to recover the coins...