Word: mccormack
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...hearing was chaired by Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.). Former Speaker of the House John C. McCormack and Rep. J. Joseph Moackley (D-Mass.) were also present as guests of the subcommittee...
Students had begun lining up for the 425 tickets allocated them the night before distribution, and many were turned away. Invited guests included John McCormack, the recently retired speaker of the House of Representatives, and Congressman Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), who reportedly told Meir he was her "Congressman...
...Crimson's affection for John F. Kennedy by no means extended to his younger brother. In the 1962 Senatorial election in Massachusetts, Edward M. Kennedy '54 ('56) ran in the Democratic Primary against State Attorney General, Edward McCormack, whom he defeated. In the final election, Kennedy was opposed by Republican George Cabot Lodge '50, now professor of Business Administration at Harvard, and Independent H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney-Professor of History. Kennedy soundly trounced both opponents, although his only experience to date had been as a dollar-a-year assistant district attorney in Middlesex County after passing his bar examination. Commending...
...Congress to become Secretary of the Interior. An energetic outdoorsman and one of the House's leading conservationists, Udall broke with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam in 1967, hurt his chances to rise to formal party leadership when he made an abortive run for the Speakership against John McCormack in 1969. Another Democratic reformer, Udall has focused on the seniority system, which he believes is largely responsible for making the House unresponsive and ineffective...
...Yvonne Brathwaite Burke of California and Republican Congressmen William S. Cohen of Maine and Alan Steelman of Texas are completing an experimental four-week cram course on how Congress operates. The informal instructors range from such old pros as Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper and former House Speaker John McCormack to such Washington-wise Harvard academicians as Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Professor James Q. Wilson. The experts are offering the quartet not only vital inside tips on how to run their offices but also the details of some of the major legislative issues they will face. The course...