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...York (9): Samuel Nelson, Ward Hunt, Samuel Blatchford, Rufus Peckham, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Stone, Benjamin Cardozo, Robert Jackson, John Harlan; Ohio (8): Noah Swayne, Salmon Chase, Morrison Waite, Stanley Matthews, William Day, John Clarke, Harold Burton, Potter Stewart; Massachusetts (6): Benjamin Curtis, Horace Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Moody, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter.* Jackson and Taft also nominated...
State and Revolution, and Robert Blatchford's Merrie England...
ACCION is older than the Peace Corps--by six months. It was founded in 1960 by Joseph Blatchford, who conceived the idea while on a goodwill tour of South America as the captain of the University of California tennis team. According to Blatchford, he felt the need to start a community development group after Vice President Nixon was attacked in his limousine by mobs in Caracas. Although ACCION has helped reverse the tide of militant anti-Americanism, it is possible that Nixon would be attacked again today if he showed his face in Caracas...
Bucket Brigades. The founder of ACCION is Joseph H. Blatchford, 29, an intense, athletic law graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Convinced of the need for more U.S. good will and good works in Latin America, Blatchford swung into ACCION in 1960, six months before the Peace Corps got under way. Today the organization has 30 Americans and 30 Venezuelans working in 25 slums in Caracas, Maracaibo and other cities. Typically, they win slum dwellers' confidence by organizing volleyball or baseball teams, then build a recreation area and later divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean...
...future support from the "Voluntary Dividend for the Community," a new program whereby Venezuelan corporations agree to kick in 2% to 5% of their profits to help fight poverty (TIME, March 6). Gradually, the Americans are turning over their jobs to Venezuelan volunteers and to slum leaders themselves. Says Blatchford: "That's what we want to do-work ourselves out of jobs." They may not get the chance. Already communities in Brazil, Nicaragua, Bolivia and the Philippines are asking for ACCION...