Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lenny Russell never claimed to be a silver-tongued orator nor a Tip O'Neil like parliamentarian. During the 1983 municipal election, the former waste disposal manager told The Crimson that he was just "neighborhood-oriented...
DIED. George Brown, 70, British politician who served as deputy leader of the Labor Party, Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Secretary in the 1960s, but whose silver-tongued persuasiveness as a parliamentarian and popularity with ordinary people were tarnished by drink and an intolerance of social and diplomatic niceties; after surgery for severe internal bleeding; in Truro, England. A contender for the party leadership in 1963, he lost to Harold Wilson, and was named a life peer in 1970 (down-to-earthily choosing Lord George-Brown as his title...
...Democratic colleagues recognized, O'Neill had gone too far. Mississippi Republican Trent Lott immediately demanded that the Speaker's words be "taken down"-a signal that O'Neill should be called to order for violating the House's rule against personal attacks. Parliamentarian William Brown consulted a dictionary to see if the word lowest was a slur. Minutes ticked by in painful silence until a chagrined Moakley, as gently as possible, informed the Speaker that he had indeed violated the chamber's code. "I was expressing my views very mildly," protested a bristling...
...first position was Faculty parliamentarian, a job he took in 1969, a time when the Faculty was politically polarized and facing divisive issues like the school's ties with the federal government and the military. He was consistently barraged with questions of procedure during the series of contentious Faculty meetings held during that period...
...There was a parliamentarian before me, but it wasn't a position that was very demanding," Dreben says. "When topics at Faculty meetings became issues that were so large and substantial, it became rather essential to have much more formality...