Word: traxler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next day Nixon was in rural Michigan, campaigning for a Republican candidate for Congress, James Sparling Jr. He had asked for Nixon's help at a time when polls showed him running well behind Democrat Robert Traxler. By last week, however, Sparling was not so far behind and was calling his invitation a challenge to Nixon "to get out of the White House and face the people." He even went so far as to issue a statement that greatly embittered White House aides. It said in part: "The shadow of guilt now hangs over the President...
...still demonstrating considerable determination despite his Watergate woes, decided to campaign for a Republican candidate this week in a special election in Michigan. James Sparling Jr., the party's nominee in the heavily Republican Eighth District along Lake Huron, is locked in a close race with Democrat Robert Traxler. Since the G.O.P. has lost three of four special congressional elections this year largely because of Watergate, Nixon's decision to appear was a bold gamble. The election will be held April 16-ironically the day after the deadline for filing income taxes...
...such as the National Black Sisters' Conference and an association of Spanish-speaking nuns called Las Hermanas. Best known of the larger nuns' groups are the National Assembly of Women Religious (N.A.W.R.), organized in 1970, and the National Coalition of American Nuns (N.C.A.N.), founded by Sister Margaret Traxler in 1969. Sister Traxler's hope: to end "domination by priests, no matter what their hierarchical status" in the internal affairs and renewal of sisters' orders...