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Aug 23, 2021 · Colourised portrait of Lewis Powell Jr. by DonkeyHotey via Flickr. Fifty years on, the threats to America’s “free enterprise system” that worried Powell — high taxes, government regulation ...
Aug 16, 2016 · On Aug. 23, 1971, Powell penned a confidential 6,400-word memorandum and sent it off to his friend and Richmond, Va., neighbor, Eugene Sydnor Jr., then-chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce education committee and head of the now-defunct Southern Department Stores chain.
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Sep 14, 2012 · By 1971, future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell felt compelled to assert, in a memo that was to help galvanize business circles, that the “American economic system is under broad attack ...
Jul 16, 2015 · Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Lewis Powell Memo was a blueprint for corporate domination of American Democracy. For more, see Greenpeace analyses of how Lewis Powell’s suggestions have impacted the realms of politics, judicial law, communications and education. The full text of the Powell Memo is below or can be ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (born Sept. 19, 1907, Suffolk, Va., U.S.—died August 25, 1998, Richmond, Va.) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1972–87). Powell was the eldest child of Louis Powell, a businessman, and Mary Gwaltney Powell. Educated at McGuire’s University School, a private academy that prepared ...
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Aug 25, 1998 · Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., was born on September 19, 1907, to Mary Gwathmey and Lewis F. Powell. The first of four children, Powell was a well-mannered, quiet boy who excelled at his studies. The Powells moved to a nice neighborhood in Richmond in 1908, though there were no schools nearby. Powell began his education with an elderly lady who ...
Jul 14, 2014 · Power, Politics and Powell. In 1971, a Richmond attorney sent a confidential memo to his friend at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce decrying possible threats to the American free-market system. Today, Lewis F. Powell Jr.’s “manifesto” figures as the impetus behind big business lobbying in our nation’s money-fueled politics.
