Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lindsay took office, Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who is also Jewish, had recommended Garelik for elevation. Two former police commissioners, both Democrats, took up the tired cry of "political influence." Three uniformed chiefs resigned as soon as Garelik was promoted over their heads. City Council President Frank O'Connor, a Democrat who wants to run for Governor this year, did his best to capitalize on the feud by dispatching a private investigator to size up the chances of a full-scale investigation...
Eisenstadt's chief opposition comes from the Hicks-Lee-O'Connor axis of the committee, which has refused to admit either the existence of racial imbalance or the need for constructive action. Many of the more ardent Civil Rights leaders are also hostile to Eisenstadt, regarding him as a political opportunist with no strong convictions. While they may vote for him, they have never trusted him as one of their...
...goal for 1966, and we mean to reach it." However, he hedged his confident earlier forecasts that the target would actually be met, calling both the price of the war and the nation's normally large trade surplus "imponderables" that could upset the calculations. Commerce Secretary John Connor sounded even gloomier. "The balance-of-payments problem is going to be with us in one form or another as far as the trained eye can see into the future," he said...
...rose faster than exports, partly because of dock strikes and partly in response to the demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem. On top of that, Viet Nam escalation may pull $700 million of gold and dollars out of the U.S. this year as against $250 million...
...these pressures prompted both Fowler and Connor to hint that the Government may impose stronger curbs on private spending abroad-without indicating what they would be. In any case, the Administration is still leaning away from such emergency brakes as severe credit tightening or mandatory controls on foreign investment, is keeping mum on whether it may restrain U.S. tourist spending...