Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dotto's note-grabbing stand-by was far from happy with his hush money. He brooded for days, finally took his information to the FCC. Within hours Colgate Palmolive had a copy of his affidavit, the networks were informed, and everyone was in a lather. Everyone was also in agreement-Dotto was blotto. CBS replaced the daytime show with another quiz, Top Dollar. NBC, reading the public reaction more accurately, tried a whole new category: filmed drama...
...drugs, guns . . . people"; the destination of his secret flight was rebellious Cuba, not the Dominican Republic. Ernst's proof came from "confidential sources" in Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. To back up Batista (who got five planeloads of arms in March from Trujillo), Ernst solemnly presented an affidavit from Trujillo's civil aviation chief that the Monte Cristi airstrip was closed at the time and, besides, had no facilities for refueling planes...
...affidavit by "Victim" No. 3 admitted that she had not protested to the manager of a motel where she had spent a night with the soldier...
With the help of canceled checks and an affidavit, Bernard Schwartz made out something of a plausible case against Richard Mack, 48, an amiable Florida Democrat who had been thought of as a possibility for his party's future nomination for governor or Senator. Indeed, Schwartz was hardly off the stand before Attorney General William Rogers ordered the FBI into the case. Miami's Whiteside and FCC's Mack protested their innocence, and Mack requested a chance to give the subcommittee his side of the story. He was set down for the chance this week. Not before...
...eventually clamped down on the Kram brothers (the Post Office persuaded Benjamin and Henry-Max had quit the firm-to sign an affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made...