Search Details

Word: staffers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant marine matters. "The maritime guys are everywhere, passing out bucks like there is no tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNIONS: The Big-Spending Sailors | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...campaign manager resigned shortly after the arrest. But the decision to remain silent in city court was politically disastrous. Most of the rest of his campaign staff resigned. "I quit because I knew he couldn't be elected and I didn't want to waste my time," one ex-staffer said. "My decision was not based on whether or not he was guilty. The way he's handled it is the problem; he's said one thing and done another...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Tempest in a (decaffeinated) teapot | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

Another former staffer said that while he admires Howe, he doubts the congressman was framed. "I just don't see a conspiracy of that sort," he said...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Tempest in a (decaffeinated) teapot | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

Atwater began his journalistic career on a festive note at age 16, when he put in a summer stint for the Springfield (Mass.) Union. The only staffer on hand at the paper's two-man Westfield bureau on V-J day, he recalls, "I took my typewriter, set it on a windowsill, and wrote about what I could see before me: a grand, impromptu celebration in the town square. It was a great moment for a kid raised on The Front Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...time of the Democratic Convention, Carter's moment of triumph, Pollster Louis Harris said that the Democrats he surveyed "talked about him as though he were an outsider. They didn't say 'My man got it.' It's difficult to find any real enthusiasm." Admits one Carter staffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: CAMPAIGN KICKOFF | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | Next