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...98th Congress say they intend to remain in Washington to work in or around the Government. The most conspicuously well rewarded will almost certainly be former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who will earn about a million dollars this year, principally as a representative of a Houston law firm, Vinson & Elkins...
...advertisement from Tenneco Inc. brimmed with pride. As its contribution to the Reagan Administration's arms buildup, the company announced that it had delivered not one but two potent new neclear-powered warships to the U.S. Navy in a single day: the 93,000-ton aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and the 6,900-ton attack submarine Atlanta. Proclaimed the ads' headline: MISTER PRESIDENT, WE HAVE BEGUN...
DIED. Carl Vinson, 97, Georgia Democrat who served longer in the U.S. House of Representatives (50 years, from 1914 to 1965) than any other Congressman in history, and who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for 14 years played a major role in the expansion of U.S. military power; of heart disease; in Milledgeville, Ga. A former county judge and Georgia legislator, Vinson became known in the House as the "Swamp Fox" for his mastery of parliamentary procedure and his knack for obtaining the passage of key military legislation. When mentioned as a possible choice for Secretary...
James H. Evans, 61. The son of a Kentucky Baptist preacher, Evans has been law clerk to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, financial vice president of Dun & Bradstreet and president of New York's Seamen's Bank for Savings. As chairman of the Union Pacific Corp., he rules an empire encompassing the U.S.'s eighth largest railroad, oil and gas operations, uranium and coal mines and 1 million acres of real estate. Like Brophy, Evans argues that reducing the business tax burden is crucial to boosting America's sagging productivity. Says he: "People...
...Douglas says that Justice Frankfurter, brilliant, gregarious, but insecure, had the arrogant habit of dropping messages at the feet of court pages-as if physical contact with the unanointed would desecrate the sanctity of the conference room. Douglas tells of a near fistfight between Frankfurter and Chief Justice Fred Vinson in the court's conference room. He notes that Justice Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the court "simply because he was black," and quotes Marshall's contribution to the reverse discrimination debate: "You guys," Marshall tells his brethren, "have been practicing discrimination for years...