Word: banueloses
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los...
Mrs. Banuelos, who began by making tortillas 22 years ago and has built her operation into a $6 million business, saw the affair quite differently. She claimed never to have received Rosenberg's letter; her workers were well treated, she said, although she admitted that she never inquired into...
Mrs. Banuelos' bland assertion that she had been the victim of a political conspiracy seemed preposterous. But TIME's Eleanor Hoover learned that the choice of Mrs. Banuelos' plant was no accident. The tipster, Hoover reports, was Harry Bernstein, the respected labor editor of the Los Angeles...
Insubordination. Bernstein's tipster was Noel Doran, a 15-year employee of the Immigration Service, who is also vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. American Federation of Government Employees. Doran had singled out Mrs. Banuelos' plant because a raid there would get national attention. That way, he says...
Mrs. Banuelos disclaimed any intention of withdrawing her name from consideration for U.S. Treasurer, nor did the White House seem ready to change its mind, despite rumblings from Capitol Hill. Richard Nixon had good reason to be annoyed with the FBI, which had looked into Mrs. Banuelos' background and...