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National Urban League President and Chief Executive John Jacob blasted President Reagan's claims that social programs like Affirmative Action and Medicaid have failed. He accused those who say government has grown too big or too obtrusive of hypocrisy...
...Today's critics of social policy were educated on the G.I. Bill, and reap the benefits of Social Security," Jacob told a crowd of about...
...application to the high court, Grutnam complained that "the public largely perceives the situation to be one in which the defamers prevailed." He also said Jacob's action makes "a sham" of the verdict...
...never tired of describing the circumstances of his birth--in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side--as "the urban equivalent of being born in a log cabin." Like many other second-generation Americans, Jacob Koppel Javits was impelled by his humble origins into a life of public service that carried him from his ghetto "log cabin" to the halls of legislative power. Few made the journey with more confidence and gusto, and fewer still left behind a legacy of greater political achievement. When he died last week at 81, of complications from a degenerative nerve...
Christian Jacob: pianist, Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass...