Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington to work out the floor strategy. The candidate had issued one vital order: the floor leaders for the fight should not all be youthful members of McGovern's own staff but battle-tested convention veterans. Among the 23 chosen were Senators Frank Church, Fred Harris, Abraham Ribicoff and Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Governor Pat Lucey, South Dakota Lieutenant Governor William Dougherty, and Hart and Frank Mankiewicz...
...contrast, an expanding nucleus of other Democrats is demanding reform measures that would force high-income individuals and corporations to pay substantially greater taxes no matter how many avoidance schemes they might legally devise. The reformers' movement has centered on a bill drafted by Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson and cosponsored by eleven other Democratic Senators, including Presidential Hopefuls George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. On his own, as part of a massive plan to distribute more of the nation's wealth to those with incomes of less than $12,000 annually, McGovern has proposed reforms that would sock...
Cleveland, poor Cleveland, will not scare anybody this year. It remains to opposing pitchers more than he does the Indian management. The sudden Sam McDowell trade brought in Gaylord Perry to anchor the worst pitching staff in the league, but Perry may not have many good seasons left. Watch for the Indians to lose, lose, lose...
...position paper, Muskie proposed reforms aimed at increasing federal revenues by $14 billion annually. Humphrey and McGovern joined eight other liberal Democrats in co-sponsoring a Senate bill, which was introduced by Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson, to expand revenues by $16 billion.* Both that bill and Muskie's proposals call for reductions or other reforms in local property taxes, an extremely popular goal first proposed by Richard Nixon. But the Democrats have replaced the controversial alternative being considered by the President-the so-called value-added tax, which would result in higher consumer prices-with populist soak...
...devaluation agreement pledged the U.S. to enter into talks on reform of the whole monetary system, partly to make it less dependent upon the dollar as a key currency, and also to work toward making the dollar convertible into something or other. Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman has proposed that the Treasury buy up stocks in U.S. corporations and sell them to foreign central banks for unwanted dollars. Connally, however, had been totally silent until last week, preferring to wait for an improvement in the U.S. payments balance that would permit Washington to negotiate from strength...