Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chuyen, the devastating public consequences were clear. Yet it took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army's reputation is under enough attack because of the war, and vowed: "I will not see the Army denigrated and downgraded before the world." When Resor insisted that he must stand behind General Abrams and pursue the case...
Although the district had not had a Democratic Congressman since 1877, recent shifts have put power in the hands of independents. Aware of this, both parties poured in major out-of-state support. The Democrats sent in Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Allard Lowenstein. The G.O.P. countered with staff men and professional advice from the national party headquarters in Washington. Senator Edward Brooke returned home to plump for Saltonstall, and Edward Kennedy made radio spots for Harrington...
...response to objections raised by some of his students, the dean of the Harvard Medical School may resign from the board of directors of one of the nation's major drug companies...
...major changes are denial of faculty status to the ROTC staff and the elimination of academic credit for all ROTC courses...
...many blacks, women, and Puerto Ricans each firm employs. It also asks for an indication of the firm's willingness to contribute to public and consumer law work, to participate in bar associations, and to give financial aid to law schools, and for a listing of the firm's major clients...