Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black." The derisive jokes muttered by delegates who found the speech patronizing were capped when Vernon Jordan began his keynote speech by saying, "I'm president of the National Urban League and I happen to be black." When she insisted to 500 guests at a fund raiser in Dallas that "Jimmy is the best person to lead us through the energy crisis and the confidence crisis," the party faithful seemed skeptical. Said Harlingen City Commissioner Jim Werner: "The people should not be blamed for the energy crisis, but instead the man and his ill-assorted cronies...
...whole object of direct mail is to maximize personalization, and this machine does just that." Thus did William Ratigan, a top deputy to direct-mail political Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, explain a little device that seems to have arrived on the merchandising scene. Viguerie's organization sends out 80 million letters a year, mostly on behalf of conservative politicians and organizations. Since people are more likely to respond to mail that has been prepared by hand, Ratigan said, a machine was used to paste stamps on the envelopes. To add to the verisimilitude, the device even sticks the stamps.on...
Republican professionals discount Haig's chances as a politician, mostly because he has no home base from which to run. Said John Sears, a strategist for Ronald Reagan: "It's very difficult to come in and grab the ball and run with it." Asked Conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie: "Where would he get his money...
Spradley's Houston colleagues rallied to his side and a defense fund was set up. Mayor Jim McConn joined the campaign, hoping to recoup some prestige in the wake of a scandal involving a gambling debt and the indictment of a top fund raiser and aide for extorting kickbacks. In full uniform, Everitt flew to the rescue with Fire Chief V.E. Rogers...
DIED. Marvella Bayh, 46, vivacious blond wife of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma...