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...million this year. Its 7,000 employees, half of them scattered through 17 locations around Washington, are charged with regulating a staggering $200 billion worth of goods yearly. Its powers have grown steadily ever since the agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed to be a cure-all for diseases like strep throat, Congress passed a strengthened Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, providing the cornerstone for the FDA's current powers...
...effort to resolve the tensions that have spilt the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club all semester, Robert L. Wiley '78 resigned this week from the club's presidency. In his place, the club elected Patrice M. Kenney '79, the group's first woman president...
...Club's former president, Robert L. Wiley '78, resigned on Saturday following a dispute over the selection of delegates to an upcoming convention of college Republican Clubs...
...wish her the best of luck," Wiley said yesterday, declining to elaborate on his reasons for resigning...
Theodore S. Christopher '79, the Club's treasurer, was the only board member to vote against Kenney's appointment, proposing instead that Wiley be reinstated...