Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Caucus in Congress is well organized and active, but it lost its most prestigious member in last month's election, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the Senate's only black. No black will hold a committee chairmanship or leadership position for either party in the 96th Congress. The Black Caucus claims credit for the passage this year of the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, but the diluted act simply outlined goals for full employment rather than authorizing the means to achieve it. The Caucus was effective in creating the "minority set-aside program," which earmarks 10% of federal construction funds...
...that closed meeting, the Democrats decided that none of the four should be deprived automatically of any subcommittee chairmanship because of the allegations against them. The caucus did rule that Michigan's Charles C. Diggs, convicted and sentenced to three years in prison for taking salary kickbacks from his staff, must face a vote of the entire caucus on whether he can remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor...
...Engelhard's role in fostering racial injustice. Perhaps it is necessary to include a brief reminder to him and any others who believe the Engelhard issue is less than clear cut. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of twenty million dollars into a quarter of a billion fortune through his chairmanship of Rand Mines which controlled an estimated fifteen per cent of the South African gold mining industry during...
...election of Stephen V.R. Winthrop '80 to the chairmanship set the pattern that the other elections followed. In a run-off, Winthrop, who ran on the promise that he would not let his politics interfere with his administrative functions as chairman, defeated Chris Owens '81, a representative from Quincy who was discernibly more of an activist. Owens, during his pre-election speech for example, mentioned a half-dozen issues the assembly should tackle and cast the Harvard administration in an oppositional role to students. Owens got a lot of votes, but Winthrop...
...election of Jim Deutsch '80 over RAZA minority representative George Sanchez '80 for the vice-chairmanship cleared remaining doubts about the nature of the assembly. Deutsch, who favors Faculty recognition of the assembly, said during the question and answer period, "If we're not taken seriously by the Faculty and administration, then we're not being responsible to the people who elected us." Deutsch's other responses also seemed to place him to the right of Sanchez, who pleased the "Anti-Junior-Politico" sect by his response to a question as to whether he was a Government concentrator: "I came...