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...cigarette manufacturers, of course, applauded the secretary's decision. Walker Merryman, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, a lobbying group, said: "We support the secretary's decision.... We hope the [educational] campaign will be factual and provide a rational basis for a free and informed choice, which all adults should make...
Surprisingly, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Noncommissioned Officers Association, and the Reserve Officers Association--all presumably dedicated to the well-being of American soldiers--were vehement in their opposition to discontinuing the cigarette discount. According to Merryman, "They were concerned that, if half of the armed forces are smokers, loss of one of their benefits--buying discounted cigarettes--would be quite a blow." But isn't the loss of thousands of their members to cancer and heart disease each year a greater blow...
...were looking at the end product, the perception of those who hire," said Richard Brecker, chairman of Brecker & Merryman, the management consulting company that conducted the survey of 21 arbitrarily selected "top" business schools. For the survey, the firm asked personnel directors to rate schools' graduates in more than 40 different areas...
...introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power." In a subsequent Civil War case, the Supreme...
...surpasses even their own invariably high standards. The show begins slowly, unimpressively, as the groundwork of the plot is carefully laid. But the momentum picks up for good when Elsie (Ellen Burkhardt) and Jack Point (Terry Knickerbocker) team in a lovely duet that tells the sad tale of "the merryman and his maid ("I have a song to sing, O!"); in this evocatively staged number, lyrics, music, choreography and voices blend into a moving statement of the main terms of the drama--the conflict between lord and jester for the fair maiden's hand and heart...