Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senators Edward Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson condemned the company. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Senator George McGovern, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay joined in endorsing the boycott. Chicano Leader Cesar Chavez rolled into town in a bus carrying large signs proclaiming support...
...society also voted to support a bill sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wise.) that would direct the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a further study of the ecological effects of bombing and defoliation on Indochina
Embargoes. To rationalize the Senate's act, the author of the amendment, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, quoted Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "There are no internal affairs left on our crowded earth." In reply, Gaylord Nelson, who voted against the amendment, mused: "I do not understand why the policy, if we are going to apply it, should not apply, for example, to Uganda, which is arbitrarily driving out of the country some 60,000 natives who were born and raised there, not only charging a fee but confiscating all their property. Or why it should not apply to all dictatorial countries where emigration...
...clothing workers boycott has been joined by a Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers, chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Included among the group's membership are Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.). Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.). Cesar Chavez, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), New York Mayor John V. Lindsay and Morris B. Abrams, former president of Brandeis College...
...nominee put out a feeler to Mondale. The Minnesotan let McGovern know that he wanted to run for re-election to the Senate. Next he called Ribicoff, who also demurred, preferring, at his age, 62, to remain in the Senate. Again McGovern tried, this time telephoning Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson; again he was rebuffed. Nelson said that he had promised his wife he would remain in the Senate. During yet another afternoon call, McGovern informed Kennedy that he was still serious about Kevin White, who had already told McGovern he was available. Delighted, the mayor made tentative arrangements...