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After that the idea started to bubble and rise across the country. Women leaders tracking the polls began to believe, according to NOW President Judy Goldsmith, that "a woman appeared to mean the margin of victory...
...pose a takeover threat in hopes that the firm's officers will buy him out at a premium. Disney paid $297.4 million in June for shares held by Financier Saul Steinberg, who made a quick $32 million profit. St. Regis has been greenmailed twice, first by Sir James Goldsmith, the British industrialist, and then by Loews Corp., the hotel and movie-theater company...
...campaign against Reagan rather than on their internal quarrels. Twenty-three female Democratic leaders visited Mondale in Minnesota and down-played the threat the National Organization of Women had made the weekend before to stage a floor fight for a woman vice-presidential candidate. NOW's president, Judy Goldsmith, stressed that nomination of a woman from the floor would be "a last resort." Mondale soothingly commented: "I understand .. . that's politics...
...like show of indecision about whether or not to come. he V.P. procession has had one highly uncomfortable result for Mondale: he and his advisers badly miscalculated how much feminist pressure he would inspire with his overtures to prospective women candidates. Not only did NOW threaten a floor fight, Goldsmith went so far as to talk of winning ?one. The realization spread that a ? pitched battle over Mondale's run-Sning mate would create a disastrous impression of a presidential candidate incapable of controlling his own party. The 23 women who journeyed to Minnesota to meet Mondale last Wednesday...
...gathering opened, NOW President Judy Goldsmith warned that failure to pick a woman would make a convention floor fight "a very strong possibility." Said Goldsmith: "This is not in the nature of a threat. This is in the nature of a prediction. The weatherman cannot stop the thunderstorm." At a Mondale fund-raising coffee on Saturday, several delegates looked him in the eye while shaking hands and got off a prearranged line...