Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts to reduce the budget, despite the clear public cry for less Government spending. Scoffed Kenneth Young, chief lobbyist for the AFL-CIO: "The members are looking for ways to show how fiscally responsible they are. I'm afraid too many are just looking for political votes." Added Evelyn Dubrow, veteran lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers: "I think the members have been sold a bill of goods by the conservatives. It's like we never had a New Deal or a Fair Deal or a Great Society...
...what has become something of a Ford tradition, the meeting had its full quotient of melodrama and mania. A woman stockholder fainted at the microphone after nominating Benson for the board. Professional Board Baiter Evelyn Davis, who came in a red plastic fire hat, dismissed the many present and former Ford employees in the audience as "stooges." Through it all, Henry remained the star. He was frequently applauded by Ford loyalists who had come to see the chairman preside at his last such gathering...
...Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed segregated public schools. Now, less than a month before the silver anniversary of that decision, Topekans have learned that their school board has quietly paid $19,500 to settle a discrimination suit brought by a ninth-grade student, Evelyn Johnson...
Topeka's blacks, 16% of a 17,000 total student population, are concentrated in schools on the eastern side of the city. Topeka has no mandatory busing for school integration; students are allowed to attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long...
...your article on Evelyn Waugh [Feb. 12], you mentioned Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment on Waugh, but you didn't quote Waugh's reaction when in 1962 the interviewer for Paris Review asked him if he found Wilson's criticism helpful...