Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As finally worked out, the bill was far more sober than the free-spending "Christmas tree" measure conjured up by the Senate, with its $800 personal tax exemption. While it is more inflationary than President Nixon would like, the bill does postpone most of the giveaway provisions for two years...
Poolside Chat. For Addonizio, who has been mayor since 1961 after a 14-year career as a Democratic Congressman, the indictment came as something of an anticlimax. A state grand jury questioned him about local gambling last year. Federal authorities have had him under investigation since he and Boiardo were...
The Government also moved on another front last week. The day before Addonizio went to court, another federal grand jury handed up indictments against Mafia Kingpin Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De Cavalcante and 54 others. Charged with operating an interstate numbers game that grossed $20 million a year, all...
The state's attempts to clean up its own house have been few and far between. Immediately after World War II, a gambling crackdown in Bergen County netted only a 15-year-old boy for taking telephone bets. But following the late Senator Estes Kefauver's disclosures of...
For more than eight years, Robert M. Morgenthau has enforced federal laws in New York's Southern District with scrupulous impartiality. He has uncovered graft in Democratic as well as Republican city machines, convicted Wall Streeters for illegal Swiss bank dealings, and waged war against New York City'...