Word: attwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio last winter, Judge Neil W. Whitfield sentenced Robert W. Attwood, 20, who had stolen $10 worth of beer from a neighbor's garage, to four to 25 years in jail. On the same day, the same judge sentenced Mary Murray, a motor vehicles official, to five years probation for embezzling $8,000 in public funds...
...draft, which sanctioned state control of the press and called for news organizations to publish official replies to "harmful" stories, was replaced by a version ostensibly affirming Western-style press freedoms. Though U.S. delegates would have preferred no declaration, they found the weakened version acceptable. Observed Newsday President William Attwood, a U.S. media representative on the American delegation: "If there's a reptile in the house, far better to have it a garter snake than a rattlesnake." Third World delegates also praised the compromise that M'Bow, as one of their own, had put together, but they continued...
...original defendants to keep silent. It was the most concrete evidence up to that point that a cover-up had been attempted. Newsday might have broken some of the same information months earlier because it had access to another of the burglars, Frank Sturgis. Recalls Publisher William Attwood: "He was ready to talk if we had pushed him and if we had come up with money in five figures." Attwood now regrets keenly that his paper did not extract more information from Sturgis...
...Newsday says that when the tax returns of Editor David Laventhol and Investigative Reporter Robert Greene were audited by New York State, the two men were told individually that it was being done at the request of the Federal Government. Publisher William Attwood is not aware that his returns have been audited...
...investigative team (whose trophy room contains 17 top awards, including three Pulitzers) concluded that some of Bebe Rebozo's financial "deals" had "tarnished the presidency." Perhaps as a result, White House Correspondent Martin Schram was excluded from the President's China trip, and Publisher William Attwood, Editor David Laventhol and Robert Greene, who led the investigation, were all treated to IRS audits of their tax returns. On its way to becoming a paper of national influence, Newsday has also built an enviable economic base; it now carries more advertising linage than any of New York City...