Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family, O'Connor...
...Afraid, Afraid!" Though Johnson dislikes New York and recoils from its politics, he nonetheless flew in to stump for Democratic Challenger Frank O'Connor, whose campaign to unseat Governor Nelson Rockefeller is in trouble. The President, who was criticized last year for withholding support for New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate until the last moment, realized that if he stayed away this time and O'Connor and other Democratic candidates lost, the White House would be blamed. Worse yet perhaps, if O'Connor won, much of the credit would go to Senator Robert Kennedy...
...words from Washington about one of Wall Street's nagging worries. The Street has feared for some time that Viet Nam might bring on wage and price controls, as the Korean War did, which would dampen profits and decrease stock values. But last week Commerce Secretary John T. Connor told a Washington conference that there was "no indication now" of controls being necessary. Administration Economics Adviser Arthur M. Okun put it more strongly. Said he of the Korean-style control system: "There is no earthly reason why we should want to or need to travel that route again...
Only personal intervention by President Johnson on Oct. 2 had persuaded the unions to postpone the strike for two weeks. At that time, the President named a mediation panel whose members included Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary John Connor. Summoning the labor-management negotiators to Washington, McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff lectured them about G.E.'s "vital importance to national defense." Mc Namara noted that the U.S. depends on General Electric to supply, among many things, the engines for the nation's best fighter plane, the F-4 Phantom...
...encouraging social ferment. Early in the civil rights revolution, Negro activists made it perfectly clear that wittingly or unwittingly, the TV cameraman was their ally. Marches were staged and demonstrations timed to get full coverage. By reporting the whole movement, TV added to its momentum. The sight of Bull Connor's dogs attacking Birmingham Negroes served as a catalyst for the conscience of most of the nation...