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...don’t really care about floating,” said Wilham P. Meyerson ’05. “I would rather go alone and take the luck of the draw than be an appendage to a group so that I can feel like I belong...
...income tax increases. It would also have required voter approval for all new levies. Opposing the proposition was an unusual coalition of critics, including Democratic Governor James Blanchard, the state's leading corporations (General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler), the AFL-CIO, educators and former G.O.P. Governors Wilham Milliken and George Romney. They helped persuade voters that the measure would have drastically shrunk state services, especially education...
Pressure to begin strategic arms talks has been building for months. It intensified last week when Henry Jackson, a leading Democratic hawk, and seven other influential Senators (Robert Byrd, Sam Nunn, Lloyd Bentsen, John Warner, Howard Baker, Richard Lugar and Wilham Cohen) circulated a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter, urging the U.S. to negotiate with the Soviets "a long-term mutual and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced level of forces." The resulting resolution, signed within hours by 24 more Senators, was designed to counter a more radical measure introduced two weeks ago by Senators Edward Kennedy...
Blair House has heard just about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...
...Such a move has the backing of bankers like Chase National's Albert Wiggin because if foreign governments have to repay their War loans to the U. S., banks like the Chase will have to wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar Borah of Idaho and Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas were quick to catch up the President when they thought they detected a cancellationist note in his Super Plan as read to them at the caucus. Therefore surprise was occasioned last week when the White House announced that when the year...