Word: meldrim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voted not to sell water to the plant. The company continues to use all the water it wants to. All the surrounding towns have voted against allowing transport of radioactive wastes through their communities, but the project goes on. New Hampshire residents voted out their knee-jerk rightwing governor, Meldrim Thompson, almost solely on the issue of CWIP (Construction Work in Progress) charges for the Seabrook nuke, a system that allows the utility to charge higher rates to electricity users in advance for a power plant still under construction. Under the anti-CWIP, pro-nuke new governor, the plant lurches...
Then Governor Meldrim Thomson responded to the Supreme Court ruling by ordering the LIVE FREE OR DIE battle cry imprinted on all official stationery and on all highways leading into the state. But Thomson was beaten in the November election, and the state's newly installed Governor, Hugh Gallen, has decided to give the patriotic slogan a rest, initially by removing it from his own letterheads. And what is the proposed new slogan for license plates? SCENIC NEW HAMPSHIRE. On second thought...
Conservatives accuse Carter of betraying a longtime ally. New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., chairman of the National Conservative Caucus, ordered flags of Taiwan lowered to half-staff over his statehouse. The American Conservative Union asked its members to protest to their Congressmen. Ronald Reagan, running hard for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, cabled Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Ching-kuo "to express my deep regret at the action that has been taken...
...inflation, that could be called, in traditional terms, conservative. But the voters' antigovernment mood appeared more cautious than many prophets had predicted. The mood instead seemed quirky, dissatisfied, independent. While some notable liberals like Senator Dick Clark of Iowa were defeated, so were some right-wingers like Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire, and in a few states, like Massachusetts, people voted for both sides at once. Worries about widespread apathy also seemed to be exaggerated, though people turned out to vote in somewhat smaller numbers than usual (see chart page...
Ultraconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., 66, has dominated New Hampshire politics for three successive terms. In league with powerful right-wing Publisher William Loeb, Thomson has kept the Granite State free of both a sales tax and a personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy is imposed. But this year, shortly before the election, 80,000 utility bills were mailed out across the state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less...