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...into Judge Webster Thayer at the Worcester Golf Club. Thayer had presided over the Sacco-Vanzetti trial where they were found guilty. This made Thayer quite a celebrity; said he to Benchley's friend: "Did you see what I did to those two anarchistic bastards?" Benchley had submitted an affidavit to show that Thayer was something less than an impartial judge...
Thomas B. Bracken, attorney for the power plant opponents, offered three major pieces of evidence to support the groups' charge: an affidavit of a mechanical engineer stating Harvard has been working on the diesel electric generating portion of the plant since the state ruling; a series of letters from Harvard to Medical Area hospitals assuring them the power plant will supply electricity; and a recent advertisement in the Boston Globe for a utility power engineer who is qualified to operate diesels...
John Desmond, the DEQE official responsible for overseeing the project, also swore in an affidavit that Harvard has not violated the state ruling...
...course, during the long evening of affectionate oratory at the Gus Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter Administration created a national controversy, predicted that Flood was "certain" to be indicted. But the closest anyone at the Genetti came to bringing up Flood's troubles was when County Commissioner Edmund Wideman chastised...
...sworn affidavit filed as part of his fight against an Internal Revenue Service bill for $40,000 in back taxes, he said that the "C.J. Fox" paintings he has sold since the 1940s were actually painted by others. From 1972 to 1974 alone, admitted Fox, an obscure Manhattan artist named Irving Resnikoff, 81, turned out 139 "Foxes"-all from photographs of the subjects-for a fee of $250 to $300 apiece. By his own admission, Fox could not have done the portraits if he tried: he cannot paint...