Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearing. Jimmy Carter has taken note of these stirrings; he proclaimed one week last month to be National Hispanic Heritage Week and sent tape-recorded greetings in his unpolished Spanish to Hispanic communities across the land. First Lady Rosalynn Carter underlined those saludos by appearing at a Washington fund raiser for Congress's five-member Hispanic Caucus...
...join the President in the crowded Washington Hilton ballroom. Leaning forward to admire his multitiered birthday cake, Carter accidentally shoved a hand into the pastry, but nothing could faze him. He simply waved a dripping hand to his admirers. Carter called the affair "the most successful presidential Democratic fund raiser in the history of the U.S.," and he assured the gathering: "We're taking control. Our nation is proud again." The guests roared their agreement...
...revival. So why did the publishers ante up? "We want to participate on the local level with other Florida businesses that see the serious social and economic dangers of casino gambling," says Miami Herald President Alvah Chapman Jr., who was designated by Governor Askew to be a chief fund raiser for the fight. Says Orlando Sentinel Star Editor James Squires, "This just happens to be a case of a newspaper putting its money where its mouth is for once...
...past six months have been convulsing audiences at half a dozen Manhattan cabarets. For several weeks they have been at the off-Broadway Theater East, and next month will be in Washington, performing for President Carter and 1,000 other assorted Democrats at a giant party fund raiser in the Washington Hilton. In October, assuming they have not conquered the world, Monteith & Rand will probably be on Broadway, where the Shubert Organization has already offered them the Booth Theater...
...prospered, Wilmot became an important Democratic Party fund raiser. He has entertained New York Governor Hugh Carey and Robert Kennedy in his Rochester home. After his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1968, Hubert Humphrey relaxed at Wilmot's 400-acre hunting reserve at Mendon, N.Y. Wilmot, his friends and associates contributed large sums to the 1974 reelection campaign of Senator Daniel Inouye, member of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, and in 1976 to a fund set up by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, then majority leader, for the campaigns of Democratic Congressmen...