Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alvan T. Fuller, who knew well that the decision of any one man would be unlikely to satisfy the extreme partisans of either side. He determined to appoint an advisory committee and immediately decided on A. Lawrence Lowell for one member. Lowell recommended the president of M.I.T., Samuel W. Stratton, for a second member, and retired Judge Robert Grant was eventually named to round out the group...
Although no chairman was appointed, Lowell was so obviously in command that the newspapers quickly came to call the group "the Lowell Committee." Grant interrupted the hearings only rarely; Stratton, so far as can be ascertained, never said a word during the entire time the committee met. It was Lowell for the most part who questioned the witnesses, and it was Lowell who acted as spokesman for the committee...
...really not taken place until May 13. He was shown to be mistaken, but peevishly kept the correction of his error out of the official record of the case. More importantly, Lowell broke a rule of the committee by accepting evidence and investigating on his own without Stratton and Grant...
...politician could accomplish. For years, the Democratic city of Chicago and the generally Republican state of Illinois had been at a financial impasse: each needed more sales-tax revenue, but neither could get it without mutual support in the state legislature. Daley paid a call on Republican Governor William Stratton and came to an agreement-a half-cent for the state, a half-cent for Chicago. In one hour's work in Stratton's office, Daley picked up additional revenue for Chicago that now runs about $24 million a year. Stratton also agreed to help push through long...
Earlier last week, the two officers, while patrolling Commonwealth Avenue on a special detail to search for parking-meter thieves, noticed Washington on the raised lawn of the Bryant and Stratton School at 2 a.m. In response to questioning from the officers, Washington gave his name, address, where he was coming from, and his destination, but maintained that the officers had no right to ask him anything else without showing good reason...