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...Austin Ranney, senior political scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, finds immense irony in this development. "One of the great reasons for reform from the very beginning was to get away from patronage, so delegates would not be beholden to the old bosses," he says. Ranney now fears that all of the electoral reforms have not prevented the beholden of a different kind from entering through a "back door" of the convention. Since there are no longer power centers like Chicago's late Mayor Richard Daley, and only 69 Senators, Governors and members of the House were delegates this...
...Austin Ranney, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, believes that as long as the parties remain weak, the handlers will multiply and as they move from candidate to candidate, they may develop ever more the attitude of horse trainers...
...Betty Ford's favorite picture is Boys Crabbing, a muted oil by 19th century Genre Painter William Ranney ("I understand boys," the mother of three of them says). Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose portrait is on the wall of the Grand Staircase, is her idea "of what a First Lady should look like...
Officially, the fund is administered by eight Teamster officers and eight employer representatives. Four of the Teamsters' trustees have known connections with the Mafia: Frank Fitzsimmons, William Presser, Frank Ranney and Roy Williams. In practice, say federal investigators, just who gets money is determined by the union trustees; they are influenced heavily by Allen Dorfman, once a special consultant to the fund until he was convicted of accepting a $55,000 kickback from a borrower and went to prison for eight months. He was forced to sever his Teamster connections, but he still calls many shots...
...questionnaire does not support the report is untenable if the report is read with any care. Implying that student support of the program makes the report inconsistent with the questionnaire ignores the fact that academic policy is not and should not be made by student vote. George A. Ranney '62, Chairman, Student Council Committee on Educational Policy...