Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lion would dare take on the First Lady's imposing retinue of 40, which included Evangelist Billy Graham, Mrs. John H. Johnson, wife of the publisher of Ebony and Jet, and Bernard Lasker, former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange board of governors...
...must be weighed against it. The Postal Reorganization Act that set up the Postal Service specifies eight criteria, including the value of the mails to senders and recipients, and the effect of new rates on the public. Testifying before the rate commission on behalf of his monthly magazine Decision, Evangelist Billy Graham demanded a "social evaluation of the relative merits of various rates...
...Mormon and a politician, Romney has the approach of a pragmatic evangelist. "There's nothing wrong with enclaves," he concludes, "as long as they don't prevent the opportunity to locate where the jobs are. I don't think anyone knows what patterns are going to develop when American citizens all enjoy mobility and diversity of choice. But I'm convinced we can't restrict black Americans, or brown, or yellow or any other kind for that matter, to the central cities and not permit them that fundamental opportunity...
...Executive, urging the reconvening Congress to act on his New Economic Policy, meeting with labor leaders to help plan what wage and price restraints will follow the end of the 90-day freeze-which the President said he would not extend beyond Nov. 14. Nixon was also the economic evangelist, preaching a new-old faith in the basic strength of the American system...
...briefing, Burns said of Nixon's proposals: "This has electrified the nation." It had obviously electrified Nixon too. Before settling into San Clemente for a rest, he spent the rest of the week barnstorming the U.S. with the fervor of a newly sawdusted evangelist. He had the Knights of Columbus standing on their chairs to applaud him in New York. In Springfield, Ill., Nixon invoked "Lincoln's legacy." America, said the President, needs sacrifice and competition: "We can at this point in our history nobly save, or meanly lose, man's last best hope." Nixon capped his week with...