Word: whips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) was said by friends to be running hard to replace Foley as majority leader, the No. 2 position. It was unclear whether the third-ranking Democrat in the House, majority whip Tony Coelho of California, would seek to move up or would be prevented from doing so by separate ethics questions that have arisen over his business dealings...
Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho, with whom Mack golfs, support Mack's rehabilitation; they view the dredged-up story as an indirect attack on Wright, who is under investigation by the House ethics committee. Others feel that rehabilitation occurred before adequate retribution. Mack may have satisfied the demands of the legal system, but his elevation to a position of privilege may yet offend a larger notion of decency. Should a felon who has been denied the right to vote be instrumental in making the nation's laws...
Marianne Gingrich, whose husband Newt is the House Minority Whip who initiated the Wright inquiry, is herself being scrutinized for her role in promoting Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity. Part book (co-authored by a science fiction writer), part polemic, part tax shelter, Window lost money for its investors, but earned the Gingriches $12,018 in royalties and Mrs. Gingrich $11,500 in salary. When asked about this at a press conference last week, Marianne stomped out in tears...
...Wright had seemed likely to hold on to his job. Now close observers of Congress, such as lobbyists and Democratic powers outside the legislative chamber, think the best he can expect is to retain the speakership until late in the year, before being pushed into resignation. House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich, who first called for the Wright investigation, went even further, predicting that Wright would become such an embarrassment for the Democrats that Majority Leader Tom Foley of Washington "will be Speaker by June...
...winds of war whip briskly through this novel of the Philippines just before and during the Japanese occupation. Ralph Graves, who knew the islands as the teenage stepson of the U.S. High Commissioner during 1939-41, re- creates the prewar colonial atmosphere, the swift arrival of the enemy after Pearl Harbor and the struggle to survive until General Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return. Graves, the last managing editor of the weekly LIFE and a retired editorial director of Time Inc., deploys a diverse cast of characters (American, Filipino and Japanese) whose fates are joined in a narrative that combines...