Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 1975, when the fund drive had raised about $1.1 million, Hugh Calkins '45, its chairman, predicted it would yield $2 million of the $4.4 million needed to put Radcliffe's endowment for financial aid on an equal footing with Harvard...
...other outsiders who flocked to the town to observe the events at Jimmy Carter's church. One deacon complained to a reporter: "We don't feel like swapping a church for a President. You have made our Sunday into a spectacle." Another deacon, Carter's cousin Hugh, a state senator, told reporters: "We are trying to work out a solution that will keep our church and our community from disintegrating...
...partisanship and professing a desire to get to the truth. Baker, he says, wanted to keep the public hearings short and start them early, before Dash felt ready to go before the television cameras with his evidence. Dash also suspects that Baker was behind Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's move to postpone John Dean's testimony for a week while Nixon met with Brezhnev. It seemed at the time that the delay was used to discredit Dean in advance, but in the end, Dash felt it backfired because of Dean's well documented testimony. The only confirmation of Dash...
...PRESIDENCY / HUGH SIDEY...
Early on, Republican Congressman John Heinz seemed to be in something of a pickle. His bid for retiring Minority Leader Hugh Scott's Senate seat was hurt by disclosures of illegal Gulf Oil contributions to one of his House races. To remedy that, the heir to a "57 Varieties" fortune unleashed an avalanche of greenbacks-mostly his own. It was sufficient to bury Democratic Congressman William Green, despite Green's support from organized labor and the powerful big-city machines. Heinz's campaign outlay (well over $2 million) was the largest sum spent on a Senate race...