Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week in a Wagnerian opening to their eight-week national election campaign. Chancellor Willy Brandt lost his temper at a press conference. Karl Schiller, who had resigned as Brandt's Economics and Finance Minister in June, quit the Social Democratic Party completely, accusing his Cabinet successor, Helmut Schmidt, of "demagogic downplaying" of inflation. Another former Finance Minister, Christian Social Union Leader Franz Josef Strauss, likened Brandt's views on price increases to those of a simple hausfrau...
Whatever the frequency of visits or opinions of Mooney. Thompson and Donsanto, both Daly and Schmidt have some arguments against the lobbyist label. Among them is what they claim to be primarily a listening role at the nation's capital...
...might stay on federal bills, and let legislators know where we stand," Schmidt says. "We might write letters or see people involved in the activities... We try to maintain fairly close contact with committees involved in education, the staffs and parts of HEW." But Schmidt stressed that the large bulk of such contact consisted of "information gathering." and that when Harvard's views were presented to officials, it almost always came in response to queries. "'Lobbyist' has bad connotations--cigars, broads, booze," Schmidt said. "In that sense, we're not lobbyists...
...principal purpose of which in to aid" in influencing the passage of legislation is held to be liable to the Office's contact with government is spent presenting Harvard's views, there is, it seems some doubt as to whether compensation going to Daly or Schmidt is marked in say way for lobying...
...substantially worsened the bite on professorial retirement pay. Since the bill passed late in the session furious efforts to urge reconsideration of the measure were dimmed by the press of legislation, and only "the House rescinded the measure. We hope to get it passed in the Senate this session." Schmidt said last week...