Among the Bull Moosers in the crowd were former Democrats and Republicans, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, columnist Walter Lippman, "wise-use conservationist" Gifford Pinchot, Judge Learned Hand and settlement house pioneer Jane Addams, who became the first woman to give a nominating speech at an American political convention.
So I reached out to my friend John DeGroote of Settlement Perspectives, a former in-house counsel and Chief Legal Officer who knew far more about corporate interests than I ever would.
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In one incident in early January, a milk seller was robbed at his house in Pakhtunabad, a ramshackle settlement in the city's northern outskirts.
We understand today that the White House has been informed that a settlement is very close for the black farmers, and the Justice Department is working it out.
It not only provided a respected and impartial figure to chair talks, but it effectively guaranteed the White House's involvement in helping to find a political settlement in Northern Ireland, between the north and the south and Dublin and London.
White House officials had, indeed, brokered last year's settlement between the attorneys general and the tobacco companies.
Congress and the White House expect to spend some of the money from a tobacco settlement on social programs.
Since the deal was announced, many other investors in the mortgage-backed securities it covers, like American International Group, have objected in court to the settlement, including a large number of investors who raced to the court house at the end of August to submit their disapproval before a deadline.
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The expectation is that these are slam dunks and that the in-house legal staff appreciates the need to accept a reasonable offer of settlement.
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The memorial foundation, which plans to build a statue and memorial to disabled veterans on Capitol Hill near the Rayburn House Office Building, stopped using Quadriga in 2008, five months before the settlement agreement was reached.
The White House views a fight with big tobacco as a political winner, whether or not a national settlement can be salvaged this year.
Chafetz noted that House Democrats also pursued the case against Miers and Bolten in court, finally reaching a compromise settlement after Bush left office in 2009.
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