Word: speaker
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Mecham's comeback began last winter when he and his supporters, known as "Evanistas," once again took control of the Republican Party, winning a resolution at the state convention declaring the U.S. a "Christian nation." The Republican speaker of the house and the leader of the senate, who had voted to impeach Mecham, were defeated in primaries. On the highways, EV WAS RIGHT bumper stickers began to outnumber EVAN THE TERRIBLE. It was a remarkable turnaround for a Governor who became a laughingstock for defending the use of the word pickaninny and swearing his office was bugged with lasers...
...source close to the Commencement planning said last night that there had been "concern" among some University officials about the selection, and that as a result there was the possibility that Harvard could break with tradition and have more than one Commencement speaker...
...sugar lobby is too powerful," concedes an Administration official. "Too powerful" is putting it mildly. Public Voice, a Washington consumer watchdog group, will soon release a survey showing that between 1985 and 1989, even liberal Democrats took significant sums from Big Sugar's political-action committees -- men like House Speaker Tom Foley ($26,500), House Democratic whip Bill Gray ($14,500) and Senators Al Gore ($13,500) and Paul Simon ($15,250). All have voted with Big Sugar in the past and will probably do so again when New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley's reform bill comes to the floor...
Life is Rough Dept. An exceedingly minor tragedy struck this week, when the alumni board of the Pi Eta Speaker's Association decided to close the all-male social club down for several weeks. While life will no doubt be considerably more peaceful on Mt. Auburn St. in the Pi's absence, the move has left one or two senior members of the notoriously rowdy club a little disgruntled...
...John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee, said he has also not received any indication that Keverian is committed to resolving the deficit soon. But Flood added that the speaker has been put in an awkward position by Dukakis...