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Advising Ike: the memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell

In this volume, Herbert Brownell, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower said would make an outstanding president, recounts his achievements and trials as one of the GOP's presidential operative in the 1940s and 1950s and as Attorney General at a crucial time in American history. Instrumental in getting Eisenhower to run for office and wielding considerable influence over many of the president's decisions, Brownell had to make many tough and controversial recommendations. In his memoirs he recalls his relationship with the president and the difficult issues confronting them, including civil rights, McCarthyism, illegal aliens, anti-trust laws and national security vs. individual rights. I am often amused when people pine about going back to the 'quiet days' of Eisenhower, writes Brownell, who served during an administration that faced not only the wrath of segregationists and Communist witch hunters but also the resolution of an increasingly unpopular war in Korea and a new definition of American-Soviet relations following Joseph Stalin's death. Particularly difficult,but among the high points of the Eisenhower administration for Brownell, were the painstaking gains made in the area of civil rights. Despite personal attacks by the opposition on his integrity, he tenaciously supported and enforced the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and Little Rock desegregation. Going beyond the years he spent on Eisenhower's cabinet, Brownell describes the events and people that have influenced his colourful life, including those from his early years in Nebraska, his apprentice years in New York as he joined the opposition to Tammany Hall, his stints as chairman of the Republican party and manager of Thomas Dewey's two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, and his 62-year private law career. Brownell's memoirs, filled with history, anecdotes, personal observations and subtle humour, reveal a highly intelligent and modest man who achieved great accomplishments - developing the first civil rights act since Reconstruction, preserving national security while protecting individual rights - by doing what he thought was right, not by being politically correct.

AICPA/POB and AICPA issue controversial recommendations

Journal of Corporate Accounting & FinanceVolume 5, Issue 1 p. 121-128 Feature AICPA/POB and AICPA issue controversial recommendations Edward E. Nusbaum, Edward E. Nusbaum Edward E. Nusbaum is a partner and national director of accounting and auditing for Grant Thornton. In this position, he is responsible for all accounting and auditing policies and overseeing all technical matters for clients. He is a former member of the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the AICPA Audit Issues Task Force.Search for more papers by this author Edward E. Nusbaum, Edward E. Nusbaum Edward E. Nusbaum is a partner and national director of accounting and auditing for Grant Thornton. In this position, he is responsible for all accounting and auditing policies and overseeing all technical matters for clients. He is a former member of the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the AICPA Audit Issues Task Force.Search for more papers by this author First published: Autumn (Fall) 1993 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcaf.3970050113 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume5, Issue1Autumn (Fall) 1993Pages 121-128 RelatedInformation

Clinical trials of antimicrobial agents following licensure.

Several reviews have highlighted the deficiencies of therapeutic studies in common clinical situations, such as intraabdominal sepsis, urinary tract infection, and the neutropenic patient with fever [1-3]. Poorly designed and conducted clinical trials lead to imprecise and controversial anti-infective therapeutic recommendations and provide an inadequate foundation for an academic discipline [4, 5]. Sound anti-infective therapeutics require accurate information that can then be disseminated to all physicians to permit informed, rational, and scientific decisions concerning treatment. Herpes simplex encephalitis is an example of the significance to patient care of well-conducted clinical trials. Initial uncontrolled observations led to the widespread acceptance and use of idoxuridine. A controlled trial proved that patients who received idoxuridine had an unfavorable outcome compared with patients receiving placebo [6]. After this experience, two subsequent multicenter trials proved that adenine arabinoside is superior to placebo and that acyclovir is superior to adenine arabinoside [7, 8]. Well-organized trials have also determined superior treatment regimens for tuberculosis and some fungal infections [9, 10].

Tolerance and technology of instruction: implications for special education reform.

Mounting criticism of special education policy and practices has resulted in controversial recommendations for reform that often appeal to the questionable authority of the National Academy of Sciences' report (Heller at al., 1982). Until now, there has been little response to this frequently cited report from a special education perspective. The present article discusses a theory of tolerance and seeks to identify the critical problems associated with the position taken in the NAS report and subsequent reform initiatives. Specifically, it is argued that brute force attempts to absorb, current special education functions into regular classrooms will necessarily fail. Regular classroom teachers, confronting often extreme variability in students' learning characteristics, cannot be equally effective with difficult-to-teach students without either substantial increases in usable instructional resources or adoption of powerful instructional technologies.

Synthesis or selection of forecasting models

This report is relevant to the practical forecasting situation in which a decision-maker is faced with several feasible predictors for his variable of interest. If he has a substantial amount of data available on the performance of each of his predictors, then it is well known that a composite forecast can be suitably derived as an optimal forecasting procedure. Alternatively, if only a small amount of evidence is available on the predictors' performance, then there appear to be controversial recommendations upon whether it is still optimal to pursue a policy of synthesis leading to a composite predictor or whether it is better to attempt a selection of the singularly best forecasting model. This report discusses some of the associated issues and provides some experimental evidence on the performance of these two policies.

The Royal Commission on Human Relations

— A comment on the recommendations related to rape and sexual offences against young people.Richard ChisholmThe Report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships was not only about sex, and not only about law; but many of its more controversial recommendations concerned the role of the criminal law in connection with sexual behaviour. Though some of the ideas are new, much of the Report brought together in a lucid and available form arguments that serious scholars have been urging for years. The reaction of some members of the community — especially Prime Ministers and bishops — nevertheless shows how far some community leaders are from a thoughtful, or even nonhysterical, appreciation of the issues. Ironically, their reactions demonstrate how much we needed the report.In this column, I will summarise the Commissioners’ recommendations about rape and sexual offences against young people! Later, probably next time, I will look at the areas of abortion, incest, and perhaps the legal context of family planning.

Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of hypertonic dehydration with diarrhea. A clinical study of 59 infants with observations of respiratory and renal water metabolism.

HYPERTONIC DEHYDRATION with infantile diarrhea has long attracted interest in Buffalo because here the incidence seems to be higher than that reported in the literature from other areas in the USA and it occurs predominantly in winter. The sodium concentration in the serum of infants hospitalized with severe diarrhea is above 150 mEq/liter in more than one third of the cases. The high incidence of hypertonic dehydration in Buffalo and controversial therapeutic recommendations, some of which are based on theoretical considerations, aroused interest in planning a controlled study which would help to evaluate causes and therapy of this disturbance. Factors contributing to pathogenesis and pathophysiology of hypertonic dehydration were studied in individual patients. Plan of Study Patients admitted to the Children's Hospital of Buffalo with dehydration and a concentration of sodium in the serum above 150 mEq/liter were admitted to the study. The patients were referred to the investigators by