Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minnesota town of Shakopee, Stans had used his accounting skills and suave manner to climb to the top of the Eastern Republican Establishment. He was Dwight Eisenhower's budget director and Nixon's Secretary of Commerce, and raised more money ($60 million) than any other political fund raiser in U.S. history. But as one corporation after another pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), one Watergate mystery lingered: How could the man in charge of soliciting all that cash not be guilty...
...electric-fenced 220-acre spread in Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs were Frank Sinatra, escorting longtime Companion Barbara Marx; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone and his wife Barbara; Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and his wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest...
...then there came a day when that changed, at least with the FBI. After Johnson had announced that he would not seek re-election in 1968, he learned from an intelligence report that Anna Chennault, widow of famed World War II Flying Tiger General Claire Chennault and a money raiser for the 1968 Nixon campaign, had got in touch with the Saigon government. It was suspected, at the least, that she was urging them not to cooperate with Johnson in his last days, but wait for Nixon to be elected. The belief in the White House then was that...
...Hays and the party leaders was also widened when Albert last week summoned Hays and, with O'Neill at the Speaker's side, asked the Ohioan to resign his leadership of the Campaign Committee. Albert argued that Hays had become too controversial to be an effective fund raiser. Hays angrily refused, but the touchy matter is far from settled...
...Sprague, 49, has had a variety of job feelers, including private-practice salary offers of $100,000. As assistant D.A., he made $40,000. But Sprague likes prosecuting too much. He is currently looking for the right opening. If the inquiries now pending about the cocktail-party fund raiser or the Nardello case bring down Fitzpatrick, Sprague figures, the opening that would be left would be just about perfect...