Word: grasso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ella T. Grasso, LL.D., Governor of Connecticut...
...York Representative Bella Abzug has proclaimed, 1974 was the "Year of the Woman." Connecticut's Ella Grasso, 55, became the first woman to be elected Governor without following in her husband's footsteps. New York chose its first female Lieutenant Governor, Mary Anne Krupsak, 43. No woman made it to the Senate. ("A stag Senate," quips Abzug, "is a stag nation.") In the House of Representatives, 18 women won seats, up from 14 in 1972. In the states, more women tried for legislative office than ever before; about 1,200 women candidates were listed on ballots, one-third...
Kingman Brewster, president of Yale; Gov. Ella Grasso of Connection; and Associate Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White were among the alumni who attended the gathering...
...their region is more dependent on foreign oil than the rest of the country, it will be hardest hit by the new fees. "By this unilateral action," objected New York's Hugh Carey, "the President is going to coerce the Congress and the country." Said Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso: "The program will mean the death of our economy." The Governors pledged to file a lawsuit challenging the President's right to take unilateral action under authority of the 1962 Trade Expansion...
There was newly inaugurated Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso off in Washington to tape a talk show, while her home in Windsor Locks, an industrial town, was being robbed. Thieves broke into Mrs. Grasso's six-room house and stole her mother's engagement ring, her own engagement ring, silver and watches "Now I'm a statistic, and I'm as angry and outraged as any other householder," was Ella's reaction. Still, she rejected a proposal for a fence. Said the Governor philosophically: "I don't like fences. They keep the people...