Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this picture sells Adlai short. It sizes him up in terms only of the Kennedy campaign style of wit and eloquence while ignoring his administrative competence and his political views. Recently at a fund-raising dinner for Douglas, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. differentiated the genuine politicians from the synthetic ones. He spoke of President Kennedy, Ambassador Stevenson, Senator Douglas and even Barry Goldwater as men of sincere political convictions, as genuine politicians. In the second category he put Ronald Reagan and Charles Percy, saying that they were men who tailored their convictions to the whim of the crowd. One should think...
...fact, these two agencies, along with the capital fund-raising drive have helped the HSA raise $40,000 of working capital, largely since last spring...
...loaded with so many assorted amendments (24 in all) that it was laughingly labeled "the Christmas tree bill." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore opposed one amendment that would allow taxpayers to allocate $1 or $2 of their taxes to a Government-operated presidential campaign fund. He threatened to call for a quorum count of the Senate, in the knowledge that it was impossible to find anything like the 51 members needed for a formal vote on anything-including adjournment...
...absence of monetary controls (a freedom found today only in Lebanon and Canada). Spreading his investments farther than his sources of deposit, Bedas moved heavily into European real estate, began issuing traveler's checks, last year even joined New York's McDonnell & Co. in starting a mutual fund sold in the Middle East, Germany, Switzerland and Latin America. Despite the increasing complexity of Intra's operations, Bedas ran it as a one-man show, scoffed at bankers who suggested he might be overextended...
Call "Station X." The city council put up $100,000 as a contingency fund to bankroll a massive man hunt. Police went on an emergency no-days-off basis, beefed up the homicide division by transferring the entire vice squad to that duty. A special "Station X" was set up at police headquarters to receive calls about the strangler; 900 came during the first eight hours it was in service last week...