Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation from the U.S. Senate was in Moscow from June 29 to July 2 [led by Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott]. Reportedly, some of the Senators proposed a compromise whereby the Soviet leaders would promise to raise the emigration quota in exchange for the repeal of the [Jackson] amendment. This deal would be an inadmissible retreat on the part of Congress; indeed, it would be a capitulation because the right to emigrate has to be backed up by law if it is not going to be violated...
...plans to file a "friend of the court" brief representing Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Hugh Scott (R-Pa.), Senate minority leader, the two principal Congressional supporters...
...Democrat Hugh Carey was an obscure politician before his election as New York's Governor last year, his oilman brother Edward was almost invisible. Yet had it not been for Edward, Hugh Carey might not be in office at all. As the secretive, quietly ambitious chief and sole owner of the sprawling Carey Energy Corp., Edward Michael Carey bankrolled his brother's campaign to the tune of $1 million...
...Carey, the largesse .was effortless. He will not disclose his net worth, but Wall Street sources put it at between $200 million and $250 million. That easily ranks the white-haired, 58-year-old Carey (two years older than Hugh) among the 100 or so richest men in the U.S. His company's annual sales are estimated at around $1.25 billion, making it the 23rd largest oil company in the U.S. It certainly is one of the world's largest companies owned by one person. While there are some unexercised stock options held by a few key executives...
Governor. Ed contributed nominally to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign-"not that I thought he was any great man," he says, "but the other fellow [George McGovern] sure looked wild-eyed." Throughout Hugh Carey's campaign, there were accusations by opponents that Ed was buying his brother's way to the statehouse, thus focusing public attention on the oil executive for the first time. Currently, Carey is under scrutiny for other reasons. The Federal Energy Administration is looking into allegations that Carey and other oil companies made excessive profits during the crisis winter...