Word: governor
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Collins too favors radical economies. Poetically, he demands that the city eliminate "the drones, the fakers, the coffee-break takers." In addition, however, Collins has taken the politically dangerous position of endorsing a sales-tax program similar to that proposed by Governor Furcolo and defeated through the efforts of Senator Powers. In his campaign speeches, Collins has reiterated this idea constantly: even with the most rigid economies possible in the city government's operation, only a few dollars could be saved; additional revenue--i.e. the sales tax--alone can and must be found to reduce the tax rate...
Egged on by an enterprising photographer, a slim blonde airlines clerk walked hesitantly toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, holding up a small toy elephant for his autograph. In the midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport, Rocky suddenly froze when he saw her. Throwing up a defensive hand and moving away, he brusquely set the tone of an uncertain week: "I'd not like to stress anything political. I'm sorry...
...liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
...South Democratic machine, Michigan's Republican Party has not won an important state election in seven years. Principal reason: G.O.P. liberals and Old Guard-ists, after mauling each other, are too beat to put up much of a fight against the smoothly functioning Democratic Party of six-times Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther. Last week word leaked out that the old Republican feud had erupted into a name-calling, table-thumping session starring Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield for the Old Guard and Henry Ford II, financial mainstay of the G.O.P...
Chairman Don Ahrens, retired vice president of the traditionally Old Guardian General Motors Corp., agreed to carry Summerfield's suggestion to Michigan State University Professor Paul Bagwell, the Republican candidate for Governor last year and titular party head. But Ford telephoned ahead, told Bagwell to ignore .Summerfield's plan, promised aid if the Old Guard attempted to bar Bagwell from another try at the governorship...