Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advocates of an excess-profits tax on oil now make exactly that pitch. Senator George McGovern, introducing a bill to tax "excess" oil earnings, declared: "Simple justice demands that no company or individual profits unconscionably from a national crisis." A more economic argument is that the artificial shortages created by war or an Arab oil embargo give companies a chance to post higher prices than normal markets would justify. In such cases those prices may have to be tolerated to encourage needed production. But, the argument goes, Government should make sure that at least some of the "abnormal" profits generated...
Peretz contributed heavily to the presidential campaigns of McCarthy and Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D...
...Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam Ulam, and Harold Demone Jr., professor of social welfare at Harvard Medical School. At a Monday-night dinner in Boston, the TIME contingent met with Pat Caddell, a young pollster who made a name for himself working in Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign, and three Massachusetts members of Congress: Margaret Heckler, Paul Cronin and James Burke...
...veteran of the paper who became editor in 1969. Kirkpatrick toned down the Trib's Republican war cries, which were sometimes as audible in news columns as in editorials, and balanced them with other viewpoints. The paper supported Nixon in 1972 but gave regular front-page coverage to McGovern. The Trib has occasionally endorsed Democrats for local and state offices. "We are no longer backing a particular point of view all the time," says Kirkpatrick. "We are using balance...
...interview following the announcement by Senators George McGovern (D-S.D.) and Charles Percy (R-Ill.) that Mayer will chair the national conference sponsored by the Senate Committee on Nutrition, he said that it will be "difficult to avoid future widespread malnutrition and hunger in the rest of the world...