Word: jacob
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Teddy helped mobilize labor and church groups behind the amendment, enlisted Harvard Law Professor Paul Freund to tutor him in the constitutional issues, spent hours on the telephone with such colleagues as New York's Jacob Javits, his chief Republican ally, and did personal lobbying in the corridors. Brother Bobby feigned indifference and pointedly did not join 38 co-sponsors of the amendment, but he worked actively behind the scenes for it. For the opposition, Dirksen set about swinging wavering Republicans back into line. His technique differs considerably from the arm-twisting tactics made famous by Lyndon Johnson. "Senator...
...Jacob R. Brackman '65, of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y., has been awarded the annual Dana Reed Prize for distinguished writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication. He received the award for character sketches of Ginsberg and Martin Luther King, which appeared in the CRIMSON...
...well-reasoned speech urging formation of a Latin American common market, U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits last week argued that only by eliminating internal trade barriers and ultimately integrating their economies will Latin America's 19 nations solve their social and economic problems. Addressing U.S. and Latin American businessmen in Mexico City, the New York Republican pointed out that development of an economic community with unified trade policies and a common external tariff would 1) "greatly increase Latin America's leverage with the industrial countries of Western Europe, North America and Japan in the field of trade...
...JOHN JACOB NILES: FOLK BALLADEER (RCA Victor). Niles started learning the folk music of his native Kentucky as a boy, collected more than 1,000 songs by the time of his extensive concert tours in the '30s and '40s, when these ballads (including Mary Hamilton, The Ballad of Barberry Ellen) were recorded. Niles weaves a strange, anachronistic spell as he sings them in a high, sweet voice, strumming a homemade dulcimer...
...final rule is to round up party allies by enhancing the politician's eternal dream of even higher office. Last week during a trip to Washington to attend a Governors' dinner at the White House, Romney had a private conversation with New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, a longtime supporter of Governor Nelson Rockefeller. It may have been coincidence, but Jack Javits the day before announced that he will not support a Rockefeller drive for the presidential nomination in 1968. And it is neither a coincidence nor a secret that Javits would love to be Vice...