Word: funded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of New Hampshire's 89,216 registered Democrats, and to mail out some 700,000 pieces of literature at a minimal expense. As it was, the campaign cost anywhere from $170,000 (McCarthy's figure) to $300,000 (the Administration's figure). Key moneymen: Dreyfus Fund President Howard Stein, who is said to have raised some $100,000; Arnold Hiatt, executive vice president of Boston's Green Shoe Manufacturing Co.; independently wealthy Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz; and San Francisco Heiress June Degnan...
...candidate." President Marco Aurelio Robles, 62, who cannot succeed himself by law and thus is not running in the May 12 presidential elections, was charged with aiding Finance Minister David Samudio, 57. Robles was accused of allowing his press office to release an official announcement of support, attending a fund-raising banquet for Samudio and writing a letter recommending Samudio's presidential candidacy to his Liberal Party directorate. Since the coalition under which he has ruled for four years had fragmented in preparation for the elections, Robles was able to muster only 12 votes in the 42-seat National...
...executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take him up on the offer...
Gordon explained that he withdrew his gift out of fear that the protestors would harm his family or the building. B.U. President Arland F. Christ-Janer called Gordon's action "understand able." Taken by surprise, student leaders started a fund-raising drive to replace...
...confidence and mutual acceptability; the currency used must be freely convertible into real goods and services, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." The dollar and the pound sterling have served this function between nations since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, which established the International Monetary Fund and the present system of semi-flexible exchange rates...