Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlotte, N.C., to address a Chamber of Commerce dinner, Romney took on the Southerners in their own territory. "As far as I am concerned," he said, "states have no rights. Only people have rights. I know that some of those who shout the loudest about states' rights are laggards in state responsibility. Obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly." Then he flew to New York, where he held a full-blown, big-league press conference during which he knocked the Johnson Administration's economic policy ("We should have had a tax increase a year...
Appearing before the National Association of Manufacturers, Romney praised the organization for becoming less obstructionist (he took American Motors out of it because of its obstructionism in 1956), and issued a rather old-fashioned warning about the dangers of "overcentralization" in government. At a United Jewish Appeal dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria,-he sounded like Lyndon Johnson's favorite Great
...Since then, city councilors, school committee members, state representatives and other ambitious but minor Boston politicians have been thinking about running for Collins' job. Local political observers are watching closely to see which contenders actually call Howard Fitzpatrick, or his competitor, Stanley Blinstrub, about arranging a fund-raising dinner...
Nevertheless, Eisenstadt's fund-raising dinner was large and successful. The committee of friends which sponsored it used an interesting ploy to insure its success. A week or two before the dinner Eisenstadt sent out invitations to each Boston Public School. The letters revealed that a certain number of places at the banquet had been reserved for school department personnel from that building. The committee explained that it took such steps because it knew that the employees would want to take part in the "wonderful evening of entertainment" planned -- nearly all the tickets were sold...
...case -- reach the newspapers. But few people were upset by the tactics and it certainly is not the last time pressure will be brought to bear on people who deal financially with the city. Most of them expect to be touched a few times each year for testimonial dinner tickets before the elections. The surprising thing is that the dinners, which seem to be interminable affairs held in hot, smoky halls, are actually well-attended...