Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backcourt, "things are still up in the air," according to Sanders. The big gap is the one left by last year's playmaker Ken Wolfe. Mike Griffin, last year's other starter, Jonas Honick, David Rogers, and Steve Selinger are the principals vying for the starting positions...
...robbers, wielding a knife and a silver-plated revolver, forced Michael K. Griffin '75 and Timothy B. Morgan '75 to the floor in their K-entry room along with their four companions. They then tied the students with rope and robbed them...
...Griffin and Morgan were unavailable for comment about the incident...
Puking Hypocrisy. The delay and the growing debate led some Republicans to accuse Democrats of letting the nomination simmer for partisan reasons. Said Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan: "It's hard to tell where the serious questions about this nomination leave off and the politics begin." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called the controversy "mewling and puking hypocrisy" and added: "I don't think that he ought to be convicted for his generosity...
...AGRICULTURAL WORKERS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION": This organization is funded by Teamster and grower money and had a predecessor known as the "Agricultural Workers Freedom to Work Association." This group was disbanded because of the lawsuit filed by the UFW, charging that the group was in violation of the Landrum-Griffin Act which prohibits employee groups being funded by employers. This group was closely allied with the National Right to Work Committee and the National and California Farm Bureaus, who were all opposed to any union and its activities...