Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What is the Administration proposal?" House Speaker Tip O'Neill inquired somewhat rhetorically last week...
...that she had long been an alcoholic. Politically, he seized every opportunity. After Timothy Hagan, 32, was elected chairman of Ohio's vote-heavy Cuyahoga County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote speaker at the state's largest political gathering in October, he was startled at how quickly Kennedy said yes. Old campaign friends who had not heard from the Senator for some time have begun receiving postcards from his trips, another sign that he wants to renew contact with his network...
Shortly after dawn one day last week, about 200 policemen surrounded a three-story brick house in Philadelphia, "Surrender immediately," demanded an officer through a bullhorn. The shouted reply: "You'll have to bring us out dead." The speaker was Chuckie Africa, a spokesman for the house's residents, all members of MOVE, a radical back-to-nature cult that had staved off eviction for 15 months (TIME...
Nobody seemed to know exactly what Griffin was supposed to do-"a little of everything," said Strauss-but it was obvious that, with his congressional connections, he could be useful in lobbying. Tip O'Neill seemed partially mollified. "The performance between the Administration and the Speaker's office is on the same course as it has always been," he said...
...brushed aside two token primary opponents. Even Republicans, however, complain that he does not seem to be much of a Kansan with his beard and his officious manner. He is also under attack for the rise in property taxes. But his Democratic opponent, John Carlin, 38, the boyish-looking speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, is still relatively unknown in a state where Republicans out-number Democrats three...