Word: mennen
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DeGuglielmo is a backer of Senator John F. Kennedy '40, while Beer, National Chairman of A.D.A. is inclined to support Senator Hubert Humphrey or Governor G. Mennen Williams. An executive of the H.Y.D.C. suggested that Senator Williams will seek to gain support for Meyner tomorrow and will not hesitate to "plug" him tonight...
Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been serving his six terms. Thanks to the state's prolonged case of insolvency (TIME, May 13), Democrat Williams' political hopes for presidential attention were stalled-and even the Democrats knew...
...ceremonial visit to a winery, and a tour of the University of California's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. In Detroit (where Mayor Louis Miriani refused to meet him), he got the full treatment from the top automakers and a private, free-for-all debate with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (Williams on Kozlov: "Urbane, gracious, shrewd, tough." Kozlov on Williams: "Not well informed on foreign affairs"). He visited Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley (who, said Kozlov, reminded him of the mayor of Leningrad), inspected an Illinois farm, a Pittsburgh steel mill. Through it all, Frol Kozlov plainly showed...
Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams last week called a joint session of the legislature and read the riot act. "This is truly a disgraceful condition to which a great state has been reduced," cried he. "It cannot but shake the confidence of the people in the procedures of representative government...
Minutes before Michigan's Republican-controlled state senate was due to vote last week on Democratic Governor Gerhard Mennen Williams' latest plan to ease the state's financial troubles, the state treasurer sent each senator a statement of Michigan's obligations and cash in hand. Its net: Michigan, in terms of its general fund, was broke; by month's end there would be no money for 20,000 welfare cases, by May 7 no salaries for state employees, university faculty members, or for the legislators themselves...