Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert insist that House Democrats must stick to the party line, and they are preparing to discipline renegades severely by stripping them of seniority and desirable committee assignments if they fail to vote for Humphrey. House Republican Leader Jerry Ford has cannily avoided making any such threats to G.O.P. Congressmen. For one thing, he knows how much easier it will be for Republicans to pledge their support to Nixon than it will be for all Democrats-particularly Southerners-to promise in advance to back Humphrey. In fact, Ford is prepared to welcome defecting...
...opened its doors in 1966, it was conceived as a private, four-year liberal arts college "unfettered by any tradition that would limit its opportunity to relate itself dynamically to the emerging 21st century." That goal was explored at a symposium of 100 educators and businessmen sponsored by the Ford Foundation, resulting in funds for construction of the college's 43 buildings on 640 acres of rolling plain six miles north of Prescott, Ariz. Though present enrollment is only 186, Prescott plans to expand to a maximum...
...author, a third year student at the Law School, is studying the problems of redistricting Boston neighborhoods under a grant from the Ford Foundation...
...Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...
...Republican posture towards discontented students and Gerald Ford's enthusiasm for a political gimmick to solve student aid problems seem to indicate that a Republican government would not share the Democratic Administration's desire to maintain an independent educational system open to students from middle and lower income families. In education, at least, it's hard to believe Nixon...