Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally did put on controls, however, he won new sympathy from executives, including Democrats. "You have to give him credit for having the flexibility to change from a disastrous policy of tight money and laissez-faire," says Howard Stein, head of the Dreyfus Corp., who was chief fund raiser for the 1968 campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy...
...those two pitiably bewildered title characters trying to figure out what the devil was going on in the castle at Elsinore. His new playlets are dramatic trifles compared to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but the longer and better one, The Real Inspector Hound, is highly diverting. (The brief curtain raiser, After Magritte, simply reduces the deductive process to a bundle of false clues that turn the characters, as well as the lines, into absurdist non sequiturs...
...with great though often misguided zeal. He fought for quotas on textile imports and large subsidies to shipyards; he argued forcefully against strict consumer protection and antipollution standards that might put an expensive burden on industry. On Feb. 15, Stans resigned to take a new job as chief fund raiser for President Nixon's reelection campaign. With equal ardor, he is now bracing presumably grateful executives for contributions...
...possible violations of federal law by channeling campaign contributions to Nixon in 1968. LIFE charged that through the White House, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service, the Administration tried to squelch investigations, delay prosecutions and interfere with cases involving Smith, another major G.O.P. fund raiser in San Diego and a former mayor of the city, Democrat Frank Curran...
...definite link in San Diego between the convention and the Justice Department. It also confirms that Kalmbach and his law firm have clout in representing Nixon in the West. Indeed, Kalmbach's career is a case study in the good fortune that can befall a tireless political fund raiser...