Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultranationalist Premier-designate Menachem Begin-who will visit Washington next month-may make a settlement all the harder to achieve. Despite their growing unease with Carter, many Jews are still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Says Max Palevsky, a top Los Angeles Democratic Party fund raiser: "There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that an estimated 65% of the Jewish vote went to Carter, Ford supporter Rabbi...
Cunningham had obviously found the right issue, and the G.O.P., still outgunned 290 to 145 in the House, had found a winner. Just over 24 hours after his victory, Cunningham was whisked off to Washington, D.C., to be the star at a Republican Party fund raiser...
...favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after all, his parents were grape pickers back in California. The friend said the cartoon was appropriate for Paco, so he had hung it on his wall next to the stark black eagle of UFW union seal. He used to chuckle...
Predictably enough, some Georgians were expected to make it past the screening committee. Philip Alston, 65, Atlanta attorney and key Carter fund raiser, said to be in line for Australia; Anne Cox Chambers, 57, Atlanta socialite and one of the owners of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and a big political contributor, is likely to go to Belgium...
Specific allegations about patronage are numerous but almost impossible to prove. Danehy says Ralph engineered the appointment of his "right-hand man" as superintendent of buildings. McLaughlin calls that man "nothing but a political hack and Ralph's campaign fund-raiser." Yet one of Ralph's partisans in the courthouse claims the superintendent "put in more hours in this building than any department head ever has or ever will." Ralph refers to him as "one of the most decent and capable gentlemen I have ever met since being in government...