Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, asking that Tehran be ordered to free the hostages and return the embassy to U.S. control. The court can adjudicate disputes between nations under a 1961 convention that was signed by both the U.S. and Iran. Court President Sir Humphrey Waldock summoned the 15 judges to a hearing next Monday. He also asked Iran to send a representative. Nonetheless, the suit was largely a symbolic gesture. The court is traditionally cautious and may decide not to intervene in the Iranian crisis. Even if the U.S. were to win a favorable...
...same attacks they do on the MX missile and huge military budgets. The public is also ready to hear many of the economic planks that make the Citizens platform more consistent than Brown's. "A guaranteed job for everyone who wants to work" is nothing more than a Humphrey-Hawkins bill that hasn't been debauched. "Price controls" would be welcome to a majority of Americans; so would firm action to stop the drain of dollars into foreign oil wells...
...inflation, then a more careful planning of capacity and production seems only logical. Not much came of this initiative as the economy sank into recession and slow growth, though traces of the planning philosophy can be found in the legislation that was finally passed under the name of Humphrey-Hawkins...
Connally campaigned in Texas for Humphrey in that 1968 campaign, but he first played the other side, helping Nixon raise money from some of his state's oil and gas millionaires. Nixon reciprocated by asking him to be Secretary of Defense and later Secretary of the Treasury. Both offers Connally refused, preferring his lucrative Texas law practice (his income averages nearly $500,000 per year). But in December 1970, when the Treasury post was offered again, Connally accepted. Nixon cared relatively little for economics, and he was in awe of Connally's self-assurance, so he gave the Treasury Secretary...
...Jeff Humphrey '83 said yesterday that while the freshmen orientation schedule is "a bit confusing and overwhelming," the writing test is the "only way to determine writing skills correctly...