Word: lairds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
...Republican National Committee last week, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith charged that the Democrats are "bogged down and apparently incapable of either winning the war or bringing the fighting to an honorable conclusion." This week, before the American Mining Conference in Denver, House G.O.P. Caucus Chairman Melvin Laird planned to announce that Republicans are now "breaking" with Johnson on the war, though in general they have given him stronger backing than have the Democrats...
Last week tradition-loving Bostonians could hardly believe the news. Stockholders of the family-owned firm had just agreed to sell it (for some $10 million cash) to Laird Industries Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Laird & Co., the New York stockbrokerage and investment banking house. Though Laird plans to keep the famous grocery line - and stylish manner - it will install as new president and chief executive Roger D. Williams, 42, former executive vice president of Rheingold Breweries. S.S. Pierce President Wallace L. Pierce, 55, a great-grandson of the founder, will stay on as chairman...
However, Rep. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said the Vietnam war budget is already out of date when compared with present spending levels...
...expected to reach $2,000,000. Two weeks ago, in order to obtain funds, the archdiocese sold its interest to a group of 15 pension funds, universities, hospitals and individuals. It had to pay $1,000,000, covering legal fees and a commission, to the Wall Street firm of Laird & Co., which arranged the transaction. But the sales price, along with the yearly royalty payments, , meant a cool $25.5 million collected from Listerine...