Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberal rank-and-file Democrats in the House of Representatives had long been seething at the independence and aloofness of some of the chamber's committee chairmen. So too had House Speaker Carl Albert and Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. With the election of 75 new Democratic Congressmen in November, the pressures for change mounted. But when they finally burst the restraints of tradition last week, the results were astonishing. For the House, that glacially sluggish institution, it amounted to a revolution...
Samkange wasn't pleased at what the commission had done in his supposed absence, for it had decided to recommend that a statement challenging the fairness of a grade he gave to a Radcliffe student last spring be placed in her file...
...that is supposed to be open and democratic. Decisions which were made and agreements which were made [on affirmative action rules] over the last six months and were made in the open were reversed in a smoke-filled room where all of us [conservative labor and party rank and file] sat by and had nothing...
About 35,000 of the union's members voted against the new settlement President Arnold R. Miller negotiated for them. But, most significantly, more than 40,000 miners didn't vote at all. The vote was the first rank-and-file referendum on a contract in UMW history, fulfilling Miller's 1972 election pledge to open up the hitherto autocratic ratification process...
Major disputes over party rules and procedures may erupt this weekend when more than 1600 rank-and-file Democrats and some 300 Democratic officeholders assemble in Kansas City, Mo., for the party's first mid-term national convention...