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...first time since 1940, the percentage of U.S. unemployed reached double digits. Black unemployment crept above 20%, and for blue-collar workers the rate jumped from 14.2% to 15.6%. Among construction workers, unemployment rose to 22.6%. Friday was even given a nickname in advance: "Double-D-Day." Said Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist: "This has been the most anticipated number in American politics. I've never seen so much ballyhoo...
...Administration divided over the proper economic course to follow, the new chairman must naturally become actively involved in policy debates. At the same time he must not allow himself to become bogged down in interdepartmental feuding between the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget. Affable Economist Murray Weidenbaum, Feldstein's predecessor in the post, cast himself in the roles of both arbitrator and peacemaker and found his influence consequently diminished. Feldstein, by contrast, plans to be every bit as forceful and direct as the other principals in the Administration's continuing economic debate...
Under Feldstein's predecessor--Murray Wiedenbaum--the CEA had apparently lost influence in the Administration. Wiedenbaum was reportedly uncomfortable with Reagan's massive defense expenditures and the subsequent large budget deficits...
Massachusetts took the ensuing punt at the Harvard 46 and marched into the end zone in 11 plays, six of them carries by either Pearson or Murray. Fullback Murray scored the Minutemen's touchdown on a one-yard dive, just 6:39 into the game, and it looked at that point like UMass had stolen a page out of Harvard's pre-game plan and was going to run the Crimson into the ground...