Word: romneys
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Among the favorite political pastimes of Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is making frequent speeches that cite percentage figures for the progress of his programs, plead for bipartisan unity, exhort Michiganders to "put an end to stalemate and drift" and "move forward...
...quest for bipartisanship, the Governor bears a heavy burden in the Falstaffian form of his Lieutenant Governor, T. (for Thaddeus) John Le-sinski, a 300-lb. Democrat who loves to ridicule Romney. Last week Romney returned from a two-week vacation in Hawaii to discover that Lesinski, as acting Governor, had just issued a devastating takeoff on Romney in his own "Report to the People...
...sure that if Governor Romney would only leave the state again during this legislative session, we should complete this record of achievement and forward thrust...
Almost like a game of cards in which everyone gets his chance, the national press periodically throws its deceptive spotlight on another of the so-called Republican compromise candidates for President: first, Michigan's George Romney; then reliable standby Dick Nixon; and recently Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton. The beam has now settled on Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to Vietnam...
After a two-year study of 250 major option plans, Economist John A. Menge of Dartmouth College found that during the 1950s former American Motors Chairman George Romney realized an after-tax profit of $564,000 on sales of his optioned shares, and RCA Chairman David Sarnoff pocketed $1,126,000 from his options. In the 1950s, according to Menge, these were some of the paper profits of executives who held on to most of their options: former Coca-Cola Chairman W. E. Robinson, $1,270,000; Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric...