Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern about the company's labor policies. Old civil rights activists banded together as Southerners for Economic Justice joined the fray. Said Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., to Stevens Chairman James D. Finley: "I come before you as an American intolerant of injustice...
...passionate advocate of civil liberties (and good cigars), Amsterdam has submitted more than 100 briefs to the Supreme Court. Among the cases in which he has been involved: Ernesto Miranda, Martin Luther King, Gary Gilmore. In 1972, with Amsterdam representing 450 of the 600 convicts on death row, the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the haphazard enforcement of capital punishment was unconstitutional. Now that the court has upheld some death-penalty laws, he says his strategy is to fight "to keep as few people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally...
...Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and the task force chairman, said last week the dissent contains no surprises, as Heimert, a task force member, made the same arguments before the task force reached its conclusions last fall...
...Paul C. Martin '52, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and chairman of the tadk force on concentrations, said last night that Heimert's dissent, which the Faculty Council discussed yesterday, contained no major surprises...
...members of the task force that I discussed the report with didn't find any new arguments that would give us cause to reconsider" the majority's position, Martin said...