Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, accused Carter six weeks ago of reneging on his campaign promises to blacks, the President reacted heatedly and suggested that Jordan had been "demagogic." But Carter was sufficiently impressed by last week's criticism to promise that he would get started soon on a new urban policy to arrest the decay of the cities and provide more jobs. The emphasis would be on incentives for greater private investment in areas now shunned as too risky. The President asked the black leaders to "hang in there" until...
...Mississippi sharecropper and started his career with a $12.95 guitar. Now the value of Elvis Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer's ex-wife Priscilla...
...Certainly, most members of this subculture are not looters or arsonists or violent criminals. But the underclass is so totally disaffected from the system that many who would not themselves steal or burn or mug stand by while others do so, sometimes cheering them on. The underclass, says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, "in a crisis feels no compulsion to abide...
...English and American Letters, Edel is now teaching in a post-retirement position at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate the Vernon Visiting Professorship of Biography, the only chair in the country devoted exclusively to biography. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan attended the class and reported...
...first responses to the program around the country were favorable. Vernon Jordan, the National Urban League director who had criticized Carter for neglecting blacks' concerns, praised the program as an "improvement over the present system. The stress on job creation, the national minimum-income support level, the additional funds and the expansion of the current income tax credit are all positive aspects...