Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank O'Connor, 56, New York City Council president, became the fourth Democrat to seek his party's blessing to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick...
...arts of suasion and compromise, is ill at ease with persistent, complex issues that are not susceptible to activist solutions. Yet the President has good reason to be gratified. The burst of inflation that dismayed economists early this year, seems to have receded. Indeed, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor predicted last week that "unless there is a drastic change, there will be no new tax in this session of Congress" (though that qualified forecast was later hedged even more by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler...
Fowler, who only three months ago was insisting that the U.S. would whip the eight-year-old problem in 1966, appeared last week at a Washington news conference with Commerce Secretary John Connor, and reported morosely that the deficit in the nation's balance of payments jumped to an annual rate of $2.3 billion in the first quarter, up from last year's $1.3 billion. Fowler also conceded that the U.S. has surrendered just about all hopes of achieving a balance as long as the war in Viet Nam continues. The direct and indirect costs of Viet...
...millionaire." "I will be nominated on the first ballot," predicted Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who recalled that his first New World forebear ran for public office in the 1690s. "I think I'm the only man," said New York City Council President Frank O'Connor, who was waiting for his rivals to evacuate Page One before formally announcing his own candidacy...
...Connor, 56, seemed strong last winter because of his proven ability to win elections in New York City but has since slipped back into the pack. "There is a time to fish," he said cryptically, "and a time to cut bait. There is a time to zig and a time...