Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over the years they have funneled millions in campaign contributions to selected politicians, mostly Democrats. In last year's elections, maritime-related unions doled out $449,410 to 215 successful House candidates, including $16,200 to New York's John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and $51,713 to five other prominent committee members. Jimmy Carter was another beneficiary of the unions' largesse; he received more than $100,000 in his bid for the presidency. So when Murphy sponsored the cargo preference bill and Carter backed it last July, House Republican Leader...
...Prince Burke sold his baseball team, the Yankees, to King George the Steinbrenner. Prince Burke was quickly sent to the garden to look after the Knicks and Rangers, for it was said that he was a great merchant; but alas, Prince Burke killed all the flowers in York's pretty garden...
...Senate. Not clear, though, is whether a majority of the House will have to approve the first treaty, since it involves disposal of U.S. property. Moving to assert the authority of the lower house, New York's conservative Democratic Congressman John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, summoned Bunker and Linowitz to a hurriedly convened hearing. His committee, Murphy said, was not about to watch the canal "go down the drain" without some...
...difficult mission, but I am also confident that the moral force of what is right will prevail. When your people are informed of the truth, they will come to know the injustice that was done here some 70 years ago, simply to provide passage for a U.S. merchant fleet. The American people are a moral people, and when they learn the size of the injustice, I believe they will support the new treaty...
...Jefferies farm in nearby Chipperfield (the Chip Carter connection?), and the King's Langley church has a brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also named John, made it to London and, in Dick Whittington fashion, became a prosperous wine merchant. As befitted a new gentleman, he applied for a coat of arms in 1612; Carter Lane, off Fleet Street, still bears his name...