Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Johnson and his legislative liaison men did an effective job of preparing Congress, taking into their confidence such key men as House Republican Leader Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. Most important of all, the President had been in constant touch with Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who remains the keystone to passage of Johnson's proposed 10% surcharge in income taxes. Said Mills when the balance of payments program was made public: "I support it. Our situation is serious. We have...
...universities polled by the committee devoted so much energy to answering the inquiries, Ford said, that he thinks Harvard has an obligation to make at least a part of the report relevant on a national scale...
...Dean Ford said last week that the report will probably be divided into two parts--the first involving specific recommendations for Harvard and the second for the nation's higher educational institutions in general...
...Advisory Council has judiciously decided to invite Fouts to its meetings and to ask the Faculty to make him an exception to Ford's dictum. The Faculty should assent...
...Ford, it should be noted, conveniently forgot another strict interpretation of University rules in order to set up the Advisory Council in the first place. When students earlier this year were demanding a joint student-faculty committee to consider parietal rules, he replied that such a committee could not be formed without the consent of the Corporation. That committee he opposed; he thought the Advisoiry Council a fine idea, and it was set up without so much as a nod to the Corporation. It is ironic that his inflexibility in determining its membership should be making life a little harder...