Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally is in danger right now of slipping into elder statesman status. Most Republican leaders, Gerald Ford among them, probably suspect he has yet to tell all about his Watergate ties, and so are afraid to pick him as a national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent...
...Robert Dole worked to pass a Senate resolution saying that people who avoided serving their country during the war in Viet Nam should have to serve some social service in peacetime. Scoop Jackson predicted trouble between the president and Congress. And the guards who kept watch over the Capitol grounds the night before the inaugural ceremony were more cold than excited...
...retired Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania as minority leader is Michigan's Robert Griffin, 53, one of Gerald Ford's closest allies. Griffin might be challenged by Tennessee's Howard Baker. Another Ford ally is in line to succeed Griffin as minority whip: the now familiar Senator from Kansas, Robert Dole...
When benevolent Tycoon John Beresford Tipton passed out checks in the 1950s television series The Millionaire, the recipients wound up with a cool $1 million tax free. No such luck awaits the million-dollar winners of state lotteries. Though the lottery commissions hardly emphasize the fact, they arbitrarily dole out their millions in installments of $50,000 a year over 20 years, all of it taxable. A winner with no other earnings to boost his tax rate further will end up with, at best, about $30,000 a year. In short, what you see emblazoned on the ticket...
...your article on leadership you included Elizabeth Hanford as one who had moved upward from Federal Trade Commissioner by marrying Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Robert Dole. Marriage is not ordinarily considered a job change-upward or downward. Does her status decrease now that it appears her husband will not be the Vice President...