Word: elections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown said the changes had been suggested after last year's annual October membership meeting when, for the first time, members made a serious attempt to defeat a slate of directors nominated by the Coop's stockholders. The bid to elect an alternate slate failed to draw the necessary quorum of five per cent of the 60,000 student and faculty members at Harvard, M. I. T. and the Episcopal Theological School to the meeting at Rindge Tech...
...time the annual meeting came around," David Kirp, instructor at the Ed School and a member of the alternate slate, said recently, "our attitude was pretty much one of we don't know exactly what can be done to improve the Coop's relationship with the community, but elect our slate and we will, at least, take a look at some possibilities never tried before...
Washington fears that the U.S. will soon be forced to make further price cuts in order to hang on to its traditional 40% share of the shrinking world market for wheat. If so, the chief losers will be U.S. taxpayers because more farmers will elect to unload their crop at the domestic subsidized price and the Government will have to pay the cost of storage until the wheat can be sold. The problem is likely to prove persistent. U.S. farm experts figure that the world supply of wheat has grown so large that even a serious drought...
...Finch and Mitchell seemed to be blunting a new and apparently important weapon. Word passed within the Justice Department that they had acted out of political pressure from Southern leaders. That feeling arose because Mitchell, as Nixon's campaign manager, advocated the appeal for Southern votes that helped elect Nixon...
...Haldeman came by to help review the domestic situation with Johnson, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger joined the discussion of foreign affairs and Viet Nam. It was a replay in reverse of the White House meeting late in L.B.J.'s presidency at which Johnson briefed President-elect Nixon on the nation's problems. Nixon and Johnson rejoined their families in the villa for a roast-beef luncheon topped off with a three-tiered, lemon-filled birthday cake decorated with yellow roses and Texas bluebonnets. The Nixons gave Johnson a 19-in.-high Japanese bonsai tree and thoughtfully...