"When you don't have issues and ideas to talk about, you fall back on endorsements."

The president of the local, Charles Hughes, said its executive board would act shortly on endorsements.

Let the men make it on endorsements and guarantees all through they year.

It's too much emphasis on money and endorsements.

Previous administrations, he told reporters, had not looked kindly on such apparent endorsements.

But in recent years many advertisers had been relying more heavily on endorsements from well-known personalities.

As is true at all 85 Thomson newspapers, the local publisher has the final word on endorsements.

He is counting heavily on endorsements to carry him through the 28 contests in the next month.

How many of the district's 158 county committee members, who vote on endorsements and the like, can he count on?

But the coalition has differed with the Mayor on several endorsements.