Word: edwin
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Schmidt was advised in his curricular decisions from a variety of sources, particularly the Verity Report, said Amenta. That report was filed by a committee headed by Commerce Secretary William C. Verity and including former United States Attorney General Edwin C. Meese...
...revive public trust in a Justice Department plagued by the scandalridden Edwin Meese, then Institute of Politics Director Richard Thornburgh, who had earned a reputation for integrity during his tenure as governor of Pennsylvania, took the post of Attorney General. Thornburgh's nomination, like Cavazos's, received unanimous confirmation from the Senate earlier in the summer...
...highways, bridges and transit systems. He calls for a modest $500 million Fund to Rebuild America to provide Government grants for regional economic development. Like Bush, Dukakis glosses over the issue of where the money would come from. He rails against big mergers as anticompetitive, chiding former Attorney General Edwin Meese for not knowing the "difference between antitrust and antifreeze." Yet many trade experts believe that a relaxation of antitrust rules is necessary to allow U.S. companies to combine forces against foreign competition. Dukakis favors tougher enforcement of safety and environmental regulations, along with compulsory health insurance for workers that...
JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY--Four times elected mayor, four times elected to Congress, once elected Governor and twice imprisoned, this upstart Irishman was the model for the protagonist of Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah. But Curley's career was as checkered as it was successful. During his 1945 mayoral campaign, Curley was under indictment for mail fraud, based on a $60,000 favor he had done while in Congress. Curley won the election, was convicted of the charges and drew his mayoral salary for five months while in jail. When he was released in 1947, the people...
Senior Correspondents: Mary Cronin, Murray J. Gart (Special Projects); Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, William McWhirter, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst...