Word: esther
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Esther Peterson, Carter's effervescent consumer affairs adviser, said yesterday the bill's supporters may still be as many as 20 votes short in the House, according to an estimate made by longtime consumer advocate Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D.N.Y...
Congress, however, was not to be stirred quite that easily. While Green and White House consumer affairs adviser Esther Peterson say that six targeted Congressmen have-publicly announced their support for the ACP since the Nickel Campaign began and at least six others have consented privately, both admit the effort has not quite turned Congress around in their favor. They still have some minds to change before speaker O'Neill can be persuaded that the timing is right to open the measure to floor debate. Some Congressmen were actually offended by the tactics employed by the Nickel brigadeers...
...late 1960s for an agency that would operate autonomously within the Government, representing the public interest by monitoring other departments, testifying at their hearings, petitioning them to change injurious regulations and challenging their adverse decisions in the courts (TIME, April 18). Says Presidential Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs Esther Peterson: "We have got to have somebody that speaks for the consumer, as we have people who speak for business." Only Gerald Ford's threatened veto kept the agency from being established...
...houselights dimmed in Detroits Cobo Hall last week, the concertmaster signaled for the oboist's A, and the strings and woodwinds went about the squeaky business of tuning up. Then like something out of an old Esther Williams spectacular, Conductor Godfrey Salmon rose 14 feet in the air atop a hydraulic podium. Silence reigned for a good second or two before the cries came from the audience: "Rock 'n' roll!" "Get it on!" "It's boogie time...
...wants least. On the same day that he endorsed ACA, the President also signed legislation enabling him to follow through on another campaign pledge -to reorganize and reduce the size of the Federal Government. Carter proposed initial funding of only $11 million or $12 million annually for ACA. Said Esther Peterson, the new presidential assistant for consumer affairs, whose task will be to lobby the proposal on Capitol Hill: "I am not for Big Business or Big Bureaucracy. We have to start small." If past experience is any guide, keeping it small may turn out to be harder than creating...