Word: cuttings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local party leaders and contributors were enlisted to threaten to cut off Senators' support. Cabinet members warned of possible lost patronage. Bearing down on Republican William Saxbe of Ohio, a White House operative ordered Ohio loyalists to "look into his personal finances." The order was canceled, but not before Saxbe got wind of it. He was enraged. "I do not know who has stirred up the people of Ohio to threaten me to vote for Haynsworth or face retaliation," he said. Declaring his independence from all outside pressures, Saxbe added: "I will not jump through a hoop for industrial...
...owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only to the mobsters. If they cheated the players, or skimmed small amounts for themselves, the dealers could rely on protection from the union with its power to call a walkout. Naturally, the mob would take a healthy cut from any of the dealers' larcenous sidelines...
...Japan now spends less than 1% of its gross national product on defense. Japanese are understandably reluctant to increase their country's military budget or to assume a larger and more expensive role in an Asian defense system. The country's industrialists naturally are not eager to cut back on their highly profitable textile exports...
Stressing the need for outside political pressure for change in this area, one speaker said that "the money could be cut off any day and our discussion here would be totally irrelevant...
...censoring practices of Harvard, Typical of the quick alterations was a new formation. F--; However, during the first quarter of the Yale game. Pittenger read the new band show and conductor James Walker was summoned to the press box. The decision was that another formation (CU T?) had been cut...