Word: calhoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Further, Watergate Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff, who is investigating Ford's use of his congressional campaign money, last week brought a witness to testify before a Washington grand jury. The witness was Jesse Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, one of the two maritime unions that contributed to Ford's campaign funds when he was a Congressman but more recently broke with...
Back in Michigan, Republican officials were confident that nothing would come of the investigation. As for the union leaders, Calhoon claimed: "I'm completely mystified by the whole thing. I don't know what the investigation is about...
...case, Jesse M. Calhoon, president of the Marine Engineers, sponsored a $ 1,000-a-person fund-raising dinner in Washington on June 30 that raised $150,000 for Carter's primary campaign. This more than matched some direct Seafarers' donations to other recent presidential candidates: $100,000 to Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey in 1968; $100,000 to Richard Nixon in 1972. Now, in election year 1976, had some maritime union leader or industry informer brought a false charge against Ford...
...Humphrey backer; and August Busch, chairman of the board of Anheuser-Busch-forsaking the party that ended prohibition. Almost as predictable by this time is the defection of portions of labor. Converts include Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons; Kenneth Lyons, president of the National Association of Government Employees; and J.M. Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, which gave COPE its single biggest contribution in 1970. The catch from show business includes Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Danny Thomas, Eva Gabor, and Sonny & Cher...