Word: cunningham
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...Iowa has been prodding the IRS and the Treasury Department for months, pleading with them to tap a source of revenue he estimates at $110 million yearly. The stalling, suggested Schmidhauser in a House speech, comes from senior bureaucrats' "unwillingness to step on powerful toes." Republican Glenn Cunningham of Nebraska made it a bipartisan fight. "This is no matter on which reasonable men can differ," said he. "It is now time for action...
Died. Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., 80, New York's official city greeter from 1954 to 1965, a suave and dapper onetime mining engineer, business executive and U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944-47), Guatemala (1948-51) and Switzerland (1951-53), who in 1954 was appointed "Chairman of the Mayor's Reception Committee of New York City," for the next twelve years glad-handed just about everyone, official or not, from hereditary kings to beauty queens and lumberjacks; in Manhattan...
Unsigned List. Understandably, Howard was anxious to get out of the maximum-security ward. After failing to get satisfaction in state courts, in March of last year, Howard filed a petition in the U.S. District Court, claiming that he was being denied freedom of religion. Cunningham and his assistant testified that they could no longer remember whether or not Howard had asked for religious services, but Judge John Butzner Jr. held that he must have "expressed his desire to hold Muslim religious services"-otherwise there would be no rational explanation for the superintendent's order. Even so, the court...
Howard then took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and last month in Richmond, Judge Simon Sobeloff was also puzzled by the superintendent's behavior. If getting the names of Howard's fellow Muslims was so vital, said Sobeloff, Cunningham could have asked all those who wanted services to sign a list. Because the prison records gave no indication of why Howard was confined, other than "for the good of the institution," the three-judge Appeals Court unanimously held that he was being arbitrarily punished "for making a reasonable attempt to exercise his religion...
...nerve. Last week Virginia's Attorney General Robert Y. Button asked for a rehearing before the full bench on the ground that the case is "of major importance." The court, said Button, has "now substituted its judgment for that of experienced penal administrators." Button cited testimony by Cunningham, who is now director of the Division of Corrections, that "if a Catholic boy came to me, or a Protestant boy came to me, saying he represented a certain group of prisoners and refused to give me their names, he would be treated the same way." The court, Button argued...