Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) country slicker from Young Harris (pop. 544) helped turn the area into a prosperous carpet center with his high-risk loans to local small businesses. He soon parlayed his bank connections into a paper empire, tried unsuccessfully to succeed his friend Jimmy Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank of Georgia and followed Carter to Washington as the President's Budget Director and closest confidant. But last week, a year and a half after being forced to resign his office because of his questionable financial deals, he found himself...
...Mitchell $100,000 to partially cover the check. A couple of weeks later a third bank made a $100,000 loan to Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell also arranged a $175,000 loan from a bank in Rome, Ga., to cover overdrafts there owed by the Bert Lance for Governor Campaign Committee, but the money was actually used to pay back campaign overdrafts in Calhoun...
Still, pro-Kennedy efforts in a number of crucial primary states were going forward. In New Hampshire, which has the earliest of regular primaries and thus a disproportionate say in presidential selection, half a dozen scattered Draft Ted efforts have been pulled together. Dudley Dudley, a member of the Governor's executive council and a leader of the movement, claims she will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State...
Backed by Lieutenant Governor William Hobby, 47, a conservative Democrat, the proposal would have established the presidential primary on March...
...give ex-Governor John Connally a chance to win early and big in the 1980 primary season and thus get a boost toward capturing the Republican nomination...