Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Committee treasurer and Ambassador to Ireland under John F. Kennedy, who was then angling for the contract to build Washington's $20 million municipal stadium. McCloskey, said Reynolds, made the payoff by handing over $35,000 more than he had to on the premium on a performance bond for stadium construction...
...pretty shady character, he produced some impressive documents to support his story: 1) an invoice in the amount of $109,000 sent to McCloskey by Reynolds, 2) a check for $109,000 sent to Reynolds by the McCloskey company, and 3) a bill for only $64,000, the performance-bond premium minus Reynolds' regular $10,000 commission, sent to Reynolds by the insurance company for which he was agent...
Somebody Goofed. McCloskey, who testified later, agreed that the $35,000 had gone somewhere, and that Reynolds had indeed been overpaid. But, he said, it was only because "somebody in our organization goofed." Company officials, he insisted, believed that Reynolds' bill was for both a performance bond and general liability insurance, erroneously sent him a check large enough to cover both. "We make goofs like that every once in a while," he said. As for the $35,000, said McCloskey, "we have plans to recoup it. That's for sure...
There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of parternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity. Had my father lived he would have lain on me at full length and would have crushed me. As luck had it, he died young. Amidst Aeneas and his follows who carry their Anchises on their backs, I move from shore to shore, alone and hating those invisible begetters who bestraddle their sons all their life long...
...said William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve, "and showed that the bankers' international contacts are pretty good." Despite that typical banker's understatement, the operations had many of the elements of secrecy, mystery and intrigue that would do justice to James Bond-or to Goldfinger, his gold-hungry...