Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm as an independent business and himself as a broker-dealer when in reality his firm was a branch office of the Securities Investment Services Corp. (SIS) of Boston and Dillon an agent of that corporation. He was charged, further, with depositing payments in a Dillon Company bank account over which he alone had control...
...while he was president of the First National Bank in Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 6,000), he arranged five loans totaling about $140,000 for his unemployed mother-in-law, Ruth M. Chance. When the interest payments were due, Lance sometimes wrote checks on her overdrawn Calhoun account to make the payments. He also arranged loans, and made similar repayments, for three brothers-in-law: a total of $57,982 to retired Naval Officer Frank M. McAfee; $180,820 to School Administrator Beverly David, who apparently committed suicide in 1974; and $214,000 to sometime Florist Claude David. There were also...
...Lance's help that LaBelle and Brother-in-Law Claude in April 1974 refurbished a cottage known as Eagle's Nest on the Lance farm as a gift to Bert. To pay for the work, Claude wrote $40,000 in checks on his already overdrawn Calhoun checking account...
...went off on a tangent by concentrating all our attention and resources on trying to refute Dean. But it no longer made any difference that not all of Dean's testimony was accurate. It only mattered if any of his testimony was accurate. And Dean's account of the March 21 meeting was more accurate than my own." With obvious regret, Nixon sums up: "I did not see it then, but in the end it would make less difference that I was not as involved as Dean had alleged than that I was not as uninvolved...
Take the so-called Southern mystique. Long ago it became a journalistic catch-all to account for quirky folkways. It is currently a favorite of reporters straining to analyze the new presidency or transform the lackluster little Plains into a mecca of color...