Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invited Robertson to meet Bennett, Jack Kemp and others from Empower America at his home in Manhattan. Things started out cordially, but before long, a dispute broke out over abortion, with Robertson challenging Bennett's call for more restrictions on the practice. Bennett showed no deference to a potential benefactor. At one point, as Bennett was arguing, Forstmann kept trying to interrupt: "Bill...Bill...Bill..." To which Bennett replied, "Forget it, Ted, the money's gone by now." Forstmann icily explained that he wasn't thinking of Robertson's money, but of the expensive and fragile chair Bennett was rocking...
...billionaire has privately assured Lamm that some money would be available. Perot would appeal to party members for donations, and estimates that more than $20 million could be raised that way. He could also make "independent expenditures" to assist Lamm, provided the spending was done without coordination between benefactor and beneficiary...
Despite a career spent in government, colleges and think tanks, Miller portrays himself as the pickup-driving, gun-owning Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding...
...library's benefactor, Thomas W. Lamont, Class of 1892, made a $75,000 donation which allowed the University to move the Dana Palmer House to its current site across from Loeb House on Quincy Street...
Frances Loeb maintained a lifetime of philanthropy, and was a benefactor of Barnard College, the Loeb Student Center at New York University, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Central Park in New York City and Lewisohn Stadium...