Word: environmentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enlarge GM's Board of Directors from 24 to 27 seats, adding three representatives of the public. The group's candidates were Betty Furness, President Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs; Rene Dubos, a University of Chicago biologist and environmentalist; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, a civil rights leader in Washington...
...issue were two precedent-setting resolutions proposed by "Campaign G.M.," an organization started by four young Washington lawyers inspired by some of Nader's efforts. One of the proposals would have added three "public representatives" to the corporation's 23-man board. The nominees: Environmentalist Dr. Rene Dubos; Betty Furness, who was Lyndon Johnson's consumer adviser; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, who would have been the first black ever to sit on G.M.'s board. The second proposal would have created a Shareholders' Committee for Corporate Responsibility, authorized to spend one year investigating...
expanding the GM Board of Directors to include three representatives of the public. Campaign GM has nominated Betty Furness, special consumer consultant to President Johnson; Rene Dubos, Pulitzer Prize winning environmentalist; and Rev. Channing Phillips, Washington evil rights leader...
Natural Life. Indeed not. Some schools chose not to wait and held special classes on environmental problems last week. Students at Ridgefield High in Connecticut spilled oil into tanks of water to learn the effects of oil pollution. But the big show was for the 22nd, and every leading environmentalist was booked to lecture long in advance. Ecologist Barry Commoner's schedule was the busiest, calling for him to rush from Harvard and M.I.T. to Rhode Island College and finally to Brown University. Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich was lined up for speeches at Iowa State, Biologist René Dubos...
First, we have proposed the addition of three new members to the GM Board of Directors. Our candidates are: Betty Furness, former Consumer Advisor to the President: Channing Phillips, black community leader and Democratic National Committeeman from the District of Columbia; and Dr. Rene Dubos, outstanding biologist and environmentalist at Rocketeller University...