Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finance their massive campaign, the Republicans plan to raise some $35 million, and more than half of that amount is already in hand. Nixon's chief fund raiser, Maurice Stans, is a master of the hard sell. He tells contributors that they should give at least 1% of their gross income to the campaign. Says he: "That's a low price to pay every four years to ensure that the Executive Branch of the Government is in the right hands." Such was Stans' zeal that he raised more than $ 10 million before the new campaign law went...
...sent shock waves through the already demoralized Democratic Party, since Klein has considerable clout with other Jews. "I used to have trouble finding any supporters when I walked into the Hillcrest Country Club," says Taft Schreiber, executive vice president of show-biz conglomerate MCA and a major Nixon fund raiser. "Now it's like everyone has had a revelation. People come rushing up to me and say: 'I just want to tell you how I'm going to vote...
Married. Arabella Churchill, 22, granddaughter of Sir Winston, and occasional charity fund raiser; and James Barton, 23, Scottish schoolteacher; both for the first time; in London...
Charles D. Thompson '47, a businessman and fund raiser, has been named a University development officer who will specialize in raising money from corporations and foundations...
Most Democrats agree that McGovern will have to write off the South, so bitter is the sentiment against him there. But nowhere are the party's regulars sanguine about the prospects for November if McGovern runs. A prominent Jewish fund-raiser predicts that "most of my friends would vote for Nixon and give their money to Nixon." Although McGovern was at pains in New York to proclaim himself a firm supporter of Israel, some Jews still mistrust him; some also feel that McGovern's political aura is too radical. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Humphrey...