Ford’s Four Senators Push Hard for Tight Campaign Build
Four Senate allies of President Ford urged a stronger post primary organization to halt Reagan’s delegate surge. They warned Kansas City could be lost without early, decisive action at state conventions.
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Washington
Ford
Kansas City
Robert Griffin
Michigan
Robert Dole
Kansas
Howard Baker
Tennessee
John Tower
Texas
Ronald Reagan
Missouri
Reagan
Rogers Morton
White House
Donald Rumsfeld
John Anderson
Illinois
Anderson
U.S. Court of Appeals
Chicago
Supreme Court
John Paul Stevens
Congress
Bob Michel
Ed Derwinski
Richard Cheney
Robert Ray
Iowa
Court blocks Ford Administration food stamp overhaul
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction delaying proposed USDA changes to the food stamp program. The ruling cites lack of authority to reorganize the program and notes potential large-scale benefit changes, cost savings, and irreparable harm to states and recipients. The suit, supported by 26 states, 73 families, and 108 groups, may proceed to the Supreme Court.
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Department of Agriculture
John Lewis Smith
Lewis
U.S. Supreme Court
Congress Debates Return to Public Housing
Congress weighs reviving conventional public housing as 40 years of federal experiments mount. Supporters cite over one million housing units and relief for low income families. opponents warn of past flaws and potential delays, arguing the rental subsidy program should continue to scale before any revival.
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Congress
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Nixon
Senate
House-Senate
Ford Administration
Sen
Edward W. Brooke
R Mass
Thomas L. Ashley
Ohio
House Housing Subcommittee
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
William Proxmire
Wis
Carla A. Hills
Hills
Garry Brown
Mich
Jake Garn
Utah
George Blakemore Founding Father of Berryville
George Blakemore a Frederick County sheriff and Berryville founder served in the Revolutionary War from 1776. He rose from private to lieutenant, fought at Germantown Camden and Yorktown, was captured at Eutaw Springs, and befriended Lafayette. He later held sheriff duties, helped lay out Berryville, and died in 1833 at Cedar Grove.
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George Blakemore
Frederick County
Berryville
2Nd
Virginia Regiment
Continental Line
Morgan Alexander
Marquis Calmes
Germantown
Thomas
Colin Cocke
Virginia
Camden
Eutaw Springs
Blakemore
Charleston
South Carolina
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Monmouth
General Lafayette
Lafayette
America
George
Richmond
Thomas Fayette Buck
Marquis
Philip Nelson
Alexander Spotswood
Christian Ferbinger
United States
James Barbour
Cedar Grove
Louise Huyette
Elizabeth Mauzy
Henry Mauzy
Revolutionary Army
Thomas Buck
Bel Air
Front Royal
Penelope Maury Polk
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Olmutz
William Mason Buck
Mantua
Moreland
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Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T. Byrd
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