Word: governors
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That leaves the matter in the hands of state and local authorities, who are equally reluctant to do anything that would trigger violence. Virginia's Republican Governor John Dalton has been the most militant to date, merely by putting the National Guard on a stand-by basis. Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp refuses to call out the Guard on his own initiative. Illinois' Republican Governor Jim Thompson has ordered state police accompanying federal marshals not to participate in the enforcement of federal labor laws, as in the case of a peaceful picket defying the Taft-Hartley injunction...
...governor, in his earnestness, asked everyone to remain inside. But does he understand the obligations of a scholar--an exalted Fellow of Harvard--and her promises to the world? My conscience won and I struck out for my office, wading through the snow...
DIED. Wesley Bolin, 68, a first-term Arizona Governor who had served as secretary of state for 29 years; of a heart attack; in Phoenix. A conservative Democrat, Bolin established a bipartisan administration by appointing Republicans to office. He will be replaced by state Attorney General Bruce Babbitt, who has mounted a tough law-enforcement campaign against Arizona gangsters...
...stick proposal was conceived by Federal Reserve Board Governor Henry C. Wallich and University of Pennsylvania Economist Sidney Weintraub. In essence, they recommend that any employer granting wage increases of 1 % or more above certain federal guidelines be forced to pay the same amount in penalty taxes. The guidelines would be reckoned by taking the annual rate of productivity increase in the employer's industry and then adding one-half of the nation's prevailing inflation rate. By that formula, the guideline for overall industrial wages would be about 5% (that is, the rate of productivity increase added...
Hundley has defended former Attorney General John Mitchell; Democratic Fund Raiser W. Dale Hess, one of the figures in the corruption trial starring Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel; Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr.; a number of FBI agents implicated in illegal searches; and even, briefly, Richard Nixon...