Word: humphrey
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...cooperative's largesse was nonpartisan. In 1968 AMPI backed Democratic Nominee Hubert H. Humphrey with $91,691. When Nixon was elected, it made its first contribution to the new President. In what AMPI former General Manager Harold Nelson later candidly described as a "peace" offering, the cooperative in 1969 gave $100,000 to fund raisers for Nixon, ostensibly looking toward his 1972 re-election campaign. In its bid for more sympathy, AMPI pledged on Dec. 16, 1970, to contribute an additional $2 million for Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The cooperative delivered a first payment...
...Nixon. Ironically, many of the lenders were prominent Democrats, including Richard Maguire, former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; the late Clifton C. Carter, former executive director of the D.N.C.; and Ted Van Dyke, who was an adviser to George McGovern's presidential campaign in 1972 and to Humphrey's campaign...
...AMPI concocted another scheme to get around federal election laws. It gave bonuses and advances totaling about $80,000 to employees and outside agents and told them to donate the money to political campaigns, chiefly that of Democratic Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey. On hearing of the Wright report, Humphrey acknowledged the gifts but said that he thought they had been legal...
...Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). The story of greed and gold, directed by John Huston (who also wrote the script). Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt play prospectors after treasure (and eventually each other). Ch. 56, 9 p.m. B/W, 2 1/2 hours...
...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...