Word: alioto
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...best we have is culture has come from the teeming, turbulent sinking cities," San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto told an English class in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall yesterday...
...BRIBERY CHARGES. Alioto and the two attorneys were accused of bribery by the Federal Government because of the means by which the fees were awarded, and in March 1971 all three were indicted. The indictment came during Alioto's re-election campaign, and there was little hope that the case would be tried before Election Day. Despite the criminal charges hanging over him, Alioto won. When the case finally went to court, Alioto and his co-defendants were cleared of the federal charges by a judge who thought the Government's case was so weak that he ordered...
...Alioto angrily contends that his legal problems were politically motivated: he was becoming a threat to the Republicans' hold on the statehouse. His bête noire, Alioto insists, was former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell...
Mitchell denies the accusation. "He's made these wild charges time and time again. Obviously, I've never talked about the subject matter or the Alioto indictment with the President or Governor Reagan. It's absolutely ridiculous that I had any interest in Mr. Alioto's political future...
...Alioto believes that he has been through the worst of it. As enthusiastic and outgoing as ever, the bull-shouldered son of a Sicilian-born fisherman hopes that his political fortunes are back where they were in 1968, when he delivered the nominating speech for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey, was briefly considered for the vice-presidential nomination and was widely regarded as one of the party's rising new talents. "I don't come from a wailing tradition," Alioto says. "We take life as it is. It is a tough life, and we know it is. They have...