Word: rousselot
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...that epochs of conservative outward rectitude, such as Victorian England, have produced lush undergrowths of erotica. And anyone who has ever attended a smoker with conservatives in, say, Prairie Village, Kansas, knows that the gusto for smut is nonpartisan. When he heard of the report, California Congressman John Rousselot, a conservative Republican, grumbled: "How did they determine it? I know they didn't interview...
...younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark to select its usual type: Wall Street Investment Banker Harold A. Rousselot...
Over the next decade or so, disenchantment set in. In 1952 and 1956 Reagan voted for Dwight Eisenhower, and in 1960 he campaigned for Nixon for President. And by 1962 Reagan had leaped a pole apart from his original Democratic allegiance: he campaigned for California Congressman John Rousselot, who ran-and lost-as an avowed member of the John Birch Society. The same year, Reagan was state campaign chairman for Birch Backer Loyd Wright in his Republican primary contest against moderate G.O.P. Senator Thomas Kuchel. In 1964 Reagan, as co-chairman of California Citizens for Goldwater, went on TV with...
...Republican and Democratic national committees combined-at its Belmont, Mass., headquarters and at regional offices in New York, Chicago, Washington, Dallas and Los Angeles. Some 75 full-time field coordinators and 1,100 section leaders direct the society's chapters throughout the U.S. And though John Rousselot, the former California Congressman who serves as the Birchers' public relations director, admits that the growth in membership has slowed down, the society is still attracting new members. It officially claims a membership of just under 100,000, but some informed estimates place the figure...
...Rousselot read the attack, he ignored it. But Furniture Dealer Webster was outraged. He circulated a letter to McGaw's advertisers: "I ask if you, as a pro-American, anti-Communist businessman, plan to support a newspaper which is evidently following the Communist Party line?" In answer, some 13 advertisers pulled out of the Southwesterner; the newspaper, which had lost $2,500 the previous year, lost an additional...