Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea that does not appeal to Connally is that he head up a third party ticket. The proposal was made to him last month at his Texas ranch by three conservatives: Author Kevin Phillips, Fund Raiser Richard Viquerie, and Howard Phillips, director of the Conservative Caucus. Connally declined, stressing that it would lead to political fragmentation. Then with characteristic bluntness he added: "Let's not kid each other. If Reagan catches on, you fellows would drop me in a second...
Jackson has so far raised $3.4 million on his own, second only to Wallace among the presidential candidates (see chart), and has received or applied for federal matching funds totaling $1.4 million. But neither Jackson nor his chief fund raiser, Richard Kline, thinks there is any chance of raising more money than the now revised 1974 law would have allowed. Says Kline: "It is unlikely that anyone will reach $10 million, not even Wallace...
...practical purposes, Bayh is close to insolvency. For that he can blame the finance law-and himself. He badly miscalculated the impact of the legislation, particularly the $1,000 limit, though he had supported the reform. Not until December did he hold his first formal fund raiser, long after the other candidates had started collecting money...
...stress Mormons' devotion, Peterson--who doubles as the Bok administration's chief money-raiser--held out the check a church member had just given him. (Mormons still tithe at least 10 per cent of their gross pre-tax income; a University branch member once in charge of collections says he cried when he first saw how much church members had given.) In a later interview in his Mass Hall office, Peterson would brag that "in three hours we could mobilize 100 people by telephone to dismantle the Lars Anderson bridge. I don't think anyone else except the Spartacist League...
Posterity may in fact regard coach Joe Restic as a greater fund raiser than President Pusey. But these are idle and self-indulgent speculations, the concern of those whose spirits rise and fall with the size of Harvard's coffers. There are those for whom the game is a sacred ritual, and others for whom the game is a meaningless display of wealth and violence. What one likes and dislikes about the Harvard-Yale game on the occasion of its 100th anniversary is probably a close approximation of how one feels about this university...