Word: mccormack
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...Appeared with Evangelist Billy Graham, Vice President Johnson, and House Speaker John McCormack before more than 1,000 persons at the annual presidential prayer breakfast. The President recalled some Episcopal eloquence by "my fellow Bostonian," the Rev. Phillips Brooks (1835-93): "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks...
Charles A. Coolidge '17, Fellow of Harvard College, and retired Maj. Gen. James McCormack, vice president of M.I.T., are members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Space Committee which backed the project. The electronics center was proposed in the President's budget message January...
According to McCormack, neither Harvard nor M.I.T. played a direct part in soliciting the center, but he stated, "The fact that Harvard and M.I.T. are in Boston is a basic reason why the government decided, to put its eggs in this basket." A vital bargaining point of State political leaders on recent business hunting forays to Washington was the pool of scientific talent represented by Harvard and M.I.T...
...Frontier. Last week he attended the President's weekly legislative breakfast and his press conference briefing, sat in on private presidential chats with congressional leaders, went to a foreign aid briefing, and drank toasts at a White House dinner in honor of Chief Justice Warren, House Speaker McCormack and the Vice President. In his two years as Vice President, he has traveled to Southeast Asia and Europe as a representative of the President and the nation. He sits in on more top-level meetings than anybody else in Washington except the President...
...place was 161 for Pat Jennings, the only liberal member of Virginia's House delegation, to 126 for Landrum. Since both Jennings and Tennessee's Bass are loyal Administration supporters, their election certainly strengthened the chances of passing the fiscal legislation President Kennedy believes is vital. But McCormack's inability to deliver his end of the bargain was an ominous sign, another reminder of the tenuous control the Administration's chief spokesman exercises over the Democratic Party in the House...