Word: traxler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York law professor, the award was the equivalent of "severance pay." Said Sidney Traxler, a Beverly Hills family law specialist: "A new element has been thrown into the hopper. Suddenly all women filing these suits will have need for rehabilitation. The judge in effect gave her disguised alimony...
Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler of the National Coalition of American Nuns: "These men in the Vatican, operating out of a wholly male environment, are totally out of communication with the world of reality. While I forgive them, I am dismayed...
...Democratic winner was Jerome Bob Traxler, 42, son of a rural mail carrier and a mod-coiffed extra vert who had a strong record as a populist in the Michigan legislature. Traxler dug into the issues of high taxes, the high cost of living, the power of the oil companies-all stands that got him the full backing of the unions. Most of all, Traxler struck at Watergate and Nixon. "We said all along that this election was a referendum on the President," Traxler later noted. "The man we had to beat was the man who lives...
...trick for Traxler to drape Nixon round the neck of his opponent, James M. Sparling, a former newsman and an aide for 13 years to Congressman Harvey. Last summer Sparling worked for the White House as a legislative aide and had been quoted as saying that he was "fully, totally, 100% committed to the President...
...Nixon spent a day whooping up Republican support in the safe rural areas, acting at times as though he were the candidate while his host stood aside and listened. Nixon apparently helped Sparling a bit as a campaigner-but he had already lost him the race as an issue. Traxler took 51.4% of the vote, a startling flip-flop from the results in 1972, when the Republicans captured 59.3% of the ballots in the district's congressional race...