Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gibson, a black Democrat, to discuss the city's impoverishment...
...Save Lives. At the time, some of Hoover's numerous critics dismissed his testimony as a grandstand play designed only to help him win funds for 1,000 extra FBI agents. Thomas Buck, 54, a writer and longtime friend of the Berrigans', accompanied Representative William Anderson, a Tennessee Democrat and former skipper of the submarine Nautilus, on a visit to Danbury shortly thereafter. "Dan said there was absolutely nothing to it," Buck reported. "Phil, who is given to putting things in a more earthy way, said it was all bullshit...
...persuaded hostile faculty members to accept a compromise making the new system optional in the first year. He helped the manager of the law-school cafeteria figure out economical ways to make hamburgers taste better, suggested bright colors and contemporary art to redecorate dingy dorms and offices. A registered Democrat, he mobilized law-school alumni to write letters to Senators opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell. Last spring he went to Washington to protest the U.S. move into Cambodia. As Harvard's president, he intends to keep speaking out on political matters...
...cache has set off a flurry of investigations into the career of Illinois' Mr. Downstate Democrat. Powell served 30 years in the state legislature before becoming secretary of state, including three terms as speaker of the house and four terms as minority leader of the assembly. He was an orator given to ungrammatical homespun anecdotes and a campaigner whose baby-kissing forays through county fairs belied his statehouse reputation as a master of patronage. His annual "flower fund" was required charity for all Powell appointees, and with 2,000 patronage jobs at his disposal during his five-year term...
This week he intends to seek an injunction against the Republican, Democratic and Conservative parties for flouting federal law restricting campaign donors to a $5,000 maximum per candidate. According to the Common Cause complaint, the parties have regularly set up campaign committees that enable a contributor to give much more than the amount permitted by the Corrupt Practices Act. Moreover, some of those committees spend more than the $3,000,000 allowable annually, Gardner charges. Next week Gardner will testify in Washington against the seniority system for picking congressional committee chairmen; one prominent House Democrat thinks that Common Cause...