Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli is no admirer of the American Bar Association to which he belongs, or of its president, Walter E. Craig. Self-styled defender of unpopular causes, Belli has voluble and repetitive contempt for lawyers who prefer corporate problems to trial work, and as he sees it, Craig exemplifies the prosperous defenders of vested interests...
...Melvin M. Belli," concluded the complaint, "is practicing law and intends to continue to practice his profession and against Defendant Walter E. Craig and other defendants and their clients and insurance companies, for individuals and unpopular causes into the far future, God, not the American Bar Association, willing...
...Platform Committee was chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, himself an unannounced Goldwater backer. It struck out against costly, deficit-creating federal paternalism in a way that went well beyond the 1960 Republican platform. It approved a platform of conservatism in the word's dictionary sense, promising tightfisted fiscal policy, deploring pervasive federal influence, and urging local action to deal with local problems. Foreign-policy planks have a distinctive hard-line look about them, promising staunch stands against Communist threats, expressing general skepticism of the idea that the Soviet Union has relaxed...
Catcalls & Jeers. To start off the bout, Platform Chairman Melvin Laird arose before delegates already weary and bored after nearly three hours of sitting. For more than an hour and a half Laird, assisted by other committee members, droned through the entire 8,500-word platform. When they finished, it was nearly midnight on the East Coast...
Most of the Platform Committee hoopla came over the appearances of the presidential candidates and their top supporters. But during its preconvention week the committee, chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, also took testimony from spokesmen for some 170 organizations, ranging from Americans for Democratic Action to the Izaak Walton League and the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia...