Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller, said of Miller: "He's a highly sophisticated, aware, dedicated and mature business manager and human being." AFL-CIO Boss George Meany, an archenemy of Burns, praised Carter for dropping the old chairman and "moving away from the discredited policies that created the last recession. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said that he might vote against Miller's confirmation because of his lack of banking experience. But he conceded that the Senate is likely to confirm Miller in view of the "glowing recommendations from all sides that this guy seems to have...
...Vice President Walter Mondale and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal that the Fed needed new leadership. About seven weeks ago, a candidate search team headed by Mondale was set up. The group knew almost from the outset that its ideal candidate would be a progressive businessman, preferably a Democrat (which Miller is). A list of a dozen names was drawn up; eventually it was pared to five. On it were Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones, Brookings Institution Chief Bruce MacLaury and Bank of America President A.W. Clausen, in addition to Miller. Washington rumor...
...that, Miller is nonetheless a registered Democrat, was an early supporter of the Humphrey-Muskie ticket in 1968 and has long been a friend and admirer of Vice President Walter Mondale. He has expressed sympathy for the unemployed by his actions as well as his words: he is a director of both the National Alliance of Businessmen, a group that tries to encourage hiring of the hard-core unemployed, and of a special business committee formed last summer to promote the training and hiring of Viet Nam veterans. In a speech to Pittsburgh businessmen last January, he not only advocated...
...returned to Washington for safekeeping despite Carter's promise to restore "Government to the people." HEW argues that its 370 programs need to be run from headquarters for the sake of consistency; divergent decisions, the department feels, confuse and mislead people. But St. Louis Mayor James Conway, a Democrat, is dismayed. "Everything is coming from Washington rather than the regional offices," he says. "Under Nixon and Ford, decisions were frequently made in the field and quickly. We find less of that...
DIED. Nellie Tayloe Ross, 101, the first of five women to serve as Governor of an American state; in Washington, D.C. A quietly feminist Democrat who was elected to a two-year term in the Wyoming statehouse in 1924 after the death of her husband, William Bradford Ross, she later became director of the Mint...