Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader had fought Wagner in the 1961 primary and as a result was opposed strongly by his county leader, Moses Weinstein. A Bronston victory would have meant the collapse of Weinstein's leadership and his replacement by someone friendly to his rival in Queens politics, District Attorney Frank O'Connor, English's close friend. Thus the coalition would have limited the Mayor's real power to Manhattan and Richmond, and by careful use of patronage many equivocating leaders could have been mollified, thus assuring their control of the 1966 convention...
...President presumably will soon be making his third Cabinet appointment (after Commerce Secretary Connor and Katzenbach). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon last week told newsmen that he would not be around to shepherd the new excise-tax reduction bill through Congress, and thus confirmed longstanding rumors that he would leave the Administration within a few months. The man most often mentioned for the job: American Electric Power Co. President Donald Cook (TIME, Sept. 11), who was once Senator Lyndon Johnson's counsel on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee. Said Johnson then: "He's rough, but he's fair...
...going to cut that to $11,000." Outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges recalled that the President had inquired if he might not produce "a saving of five people" in his department, which has 33,538 employees. After sitting in on one session, Hodges' designated successor, John T. Connor, remarked: "It seemed to me that it was a very favorable give-and-take session. Of course, in these sessions with the President, the Cabinet members seem to do most of the giving, and he does most of the taking...
...Commerce Secretary, Connor will head up an awkwardly diversified department that has 33,538 employees, operates on a $4.5 billion budget, and includes the Bureau of the Census, Patent Office, Bureau of Public Roads, Weather Bureau and Area Redevelopment Administration. But the true mis sion of the Secretary of Commerce cannot be written into an organization chart. In its simplest terms, it is to promote confidence in the Administration among businessmen. That is something at which President Johnson himself works almost full time, and he is awfully good at it. In John Connor, the President should have an able helper...
...Henry White Gadsden, 53, will take over as president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., the big (1963 sales: $264 million) New Jersey pharmaceutical and chemical firm, when his boss, John T. Connor, leaves the post next month to become Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Commerce (see THE NATION). New York City-born, Yale-educated ('33) Gadsden was a vice president of Sharp & Dohme when it merged with Merck in 1953. As Merck's executive vice president since 1955, with a salary of $124,600 a year, the soft-spoken Gadsden has impressed colleagues with...