Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee searching for a successor to Walter J. Leonard, former assistant to the President, concedes that it has no candidates for Leonard's job. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, explains, "We haven't been able to agree on a meeting time...
...boss. The choice, however, is likely to meet some resistance. Though Carter apparently had Bell in mind from the beginning, he permitted a number of others to think they were in the running, including Congresswoman Barbara Jordan; Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General in the Kennedy Administration; John Doar, counsel for the House of Representatives during the impeachment proceedings; U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Hufstedler; and U.S. District Judges Frank Johnson and A. Leon Higginbotham...
...recommended that West Point modify its policy of expulsion for code violations and impose lesser punishments for minor infractions-a practice followed by the naval and air force academies. It also suggested alternatives to tattling on erring cadets. Someone who catches a cadet violating the code might warn or counsel him. The commission urged both officers and cadets to participate in "honor education...
Gruff, confident, opinionated . . . Respected by both labor and management as negotiator ("The way to bargain with a man is to reach over and grab his left testicle-and squeeze"). Has spent a day a week in Washington nearly every year since 1938, to offer counsel on labor matters. Used hard bargaining to fight inflation as head of construction industry's stabilization committee and as Cost of Living Council chief . . . Named Ford's Labor chief in February 1975 . . . Quit last February after Ford vetoed the Dunlop-backed common situs picketing bill...
Liberal Washington attorney . . . A leading contender for HUD or Commerce . . . Age 45 . . . Born in Brooklyn . . . Was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . . . Spent early 1960s rising fast in the Defense Department; became Army's general counsel, then Secretary Robert McNamara's top troubleshooter . . . As Lyndon Johnson's domestic aide between 1965 and 1969, developed Great Society programs in civil rights, education and antipoverty; also had a hand in economic policymaking . . . Was counsel to the Democratic National Committee from 1970 to 1972, winning court battles to provide equal broadcast time for Democratic leaders...