Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cronkite imbroglio had scarcely subsided when the gaffe and goof baton went to John Chancellor. Observing the Youth for Nixon claque, he commented sourly, "At Democratic Conventions we've seen Mayor Daley of Chicago pack the halls with members of the Sixth Ward sewer workers. What we've seen tonight seems to be the Republican equivalent." The G.O.P. delegates did not fancy themselves as stand-ins for Art Carney, and NBC's switchboard was flooded with complaints. Chancellor later harrumphed an apology, and the next day a huge poster was displayed on the floor: ENTHUSIASTIC SEWER WORKERS...
...showed ABC with the greatest gain, Bill Sheehan beamed like a cheerleader. "We're going to be No. 2 by the end of the year. We're breathing down NBC's neck. We're basking in momentum." At NBC there was private worry: "Does the Chancellor-Brinkley team have enough-I don't know -enough sex, enough viewer appeal?" asked an executive. "We just don't know...
Graham Taylor, vice chancellor for student affairs on the State Board of Higher Education, said yesterday that a "potpourri of loan programs have been introduced" into the legislature in the past. If passed, the amendment that will appear on the November ballot, by making such legislation constitutional, "opens up a whole latitude of possibilities," he said...
...sometimes joked that "Reggie's only trouble is that he is still in love with his wife," meaning that he had remained more wedded to his wife Beryl, a former dancer and actress, than to his job. But between 1952 and 1964 Maudling held seven ministerial posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer, and in 1965 he was narrowly defeated by Heath for the party leadership...
...Hawaiians. Later, changing its name to American Factors, Ltd., the company became one of Hawaii's celebrated "Big Five" factoring agencies that grew to power by handling financing, shipping, insurance and other services for the sugar plantations. Walker's father, whose own father had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under Hawaii's King Kalakaua, became president of the company in 1933 and ran it until 1950. But he never expanded beyond Hawaii...