Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nathaniel Jones, chief counsel for the NAACP, said last week that full payment of the court award would have bankrupted the organization.
Martin added that the idea for the committee originated from a conversation between himself and a friend, Michael W. Jones '79, who is in charge of one of the group's subcommittees.
The fund raisers also expect to receive aid from other black campus organizations. Jones said yesterday that many other campus groups are either taking up collections for the NAACP on their own or are planning to help the committee.
Jones said that helping the NAACP is "the greatest thing I can do as an undergraduate here. Normally, I don't get politically involved, but when I saw this I said, 'Hey, a must.'"
Suddenly, it seemed, the stock market had become a kind of political poll, one that pointed down, down, down -down on Ford's chances of staying in the White House, down on Carter's populist economics, and down, or at least doubtful, on the strength of the nation...