Word: raiser
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Died. Sinclair Weeks, 78, crack Republican fund raiser who became President Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Concord, Mass. The son of a Boston financier, Weeks was a G.O.P. stalwart throughout the party's lean '30s and '40s and served as treasurer of the Republican National Committee during the war. In 1952 Weeks raised $6,000,000 for the campaign. As a Cabinet officer (1953-58), he was best known for his successful advocacy of the Administration's multibillion-dollar highway program and his support of U.S. investments abroad...
Last week Nixon appointed Peterson, 45, the Secretary of Commerce. He will succeed Maurice Stans, 63, a close confidant of Nixon's who is being assigned to repeat his effective 1968 performance as chief fund raiser for Nixon's election campaign...
Sears emphasized that the grant will not solve Sanctuary's financial problems. "All this means," she said, "is that we are funded until March instead of January." She said that the funds will enable them to hire a full-time community coordinator and another fund raiser...
...Humphrey can look for assistance to an impressive array of bank accounts-led by a Minnesota financier and longtime Humphrey backer, Dwayne Andreas. Arthur Krim, the New York theater magnate, is still thought to be in the Humphrey camp, and Eugene Wyman, H.H.H.'s big Southern California money raiser, has never left it. At a 60th birthday gala...
...late at night. He opens his speeches with familiar, self-deprecatory laugh lines, some of them borrowed from Bobby and Jack. "I'm awfully glad to be here today," he says, "especially since I am just a young Senator out to make a name for himself." At a fund raiser in St. Paul, he began: "I've often dreamed of addressing a major convention in a major city. But, unfortunately, this is the wrong convention in the wrong city and a year early...