Word: nickerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four years ago, when many American businessmen were bewildered by the Kennedy Administration's bristling rebuke of U.S. Steel, Mobil Oil Corp. Chairman Albert Lindsay Nickerson took Washington to task. He warned stockholders of the "cumulative, undermining effects" of such attacks on large corporations, protested that too often the Government's response to the legitimate needs of business had been "halfhearted, apologetic, and even occasionally antipathetic...
...Nickerson can take an even more proprietary interest in the problem of federal-business relationships. Last week he was elected to a two-year term as chairman of the prestigious Business Council,* succeeding Campbell Soup President William B. Murphy...
...year by embracing O'Connor, who as New York City council president was already the leading aspirant for the nomination. Instead, he shopped around for a man who would be both personally loyal to him and possessed of the New Frontier stamp. He finally settled on Eugene Nickerson, 48, a smooth, handsome type who is county executive in suburban Nassau. But Kennedy declined to fight openly for Nickerson. While Bobby waited in vain for Nickerson or someone else acceptable to him to gain momentum, O'Connor worked hard and successfully rounding up delegates for next month...
Last week Nickerson withdrew from the contest, and Kennedy invited O'Connor down to his McLean, Va., home for breakfast and a chat. In a sense, Kennedy was also coming to O'Connor's table. He pledged preconvention neutrality, which was all that O'Connor needed for the virtual assurance that he would get the nomination to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term...
...third term in November. An unofficial favorite for the nomination last winter, O'Connor has since lost ground but still has strong organization support. His chances for the nomination, like those of the other three Democrats (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Industrialist Howard Samuels, County Official Eugene Nickerson), depend heavily on Senator Robert Kennedy, whose muscle in the party power structure is now such that he can pick the candidate at the September nominating convention. Though ostensibly neutral, Kennedy has contributed funds to Roosevelt's campaign, is believed to favor either Roosevelt or Nickerson...