Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bernard Goldfine was back in his Boston, and his friend Sherman Adams was still at his White House desk-but by no means was all right with their world last week. With slow-moving precision, Arkansas' Oren Harris got his House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to vote a unanimous recommendation that Goldfine be cited for contempt of the House for his refusal to answer 22 questions during gaudy hearings before the subcommittee on the operations of his Boston real estate companies. Then Chairman Harris got the parent House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to add its unanimous endorsement. This...
...clear that he thought Justice had a case. In an extraordinary publication of memos he had written during the hearings, Washington Lawyer Roger Robb revealed that he had advised Goldfine to answer all the committee questions that he possibly could. Goldfine instead took the advice of tough-talking Boston Lawyer Samuel P. Sears, who, said Robb, advised his client to "tell the committee to go to hell." Sears for his part cracked back that Attorney Robb had messed things up by hiring the pressagents who turned the Goldfine appearance into a circus (TIME, July 14), hinted darkly that Robb...
Voices, writes its editors, was christened over a reflective beer at Cronin's, and consists of people "similar perhaps only in their enthusiasm for writing." Everyone contributing is in Boston for the summer; and all are under forty...
...writes, "I would make certain changes for the better, such as no drinking champagne for breakfast and fewer bad cheques fobbed off on temperamental bootleggers. But they were wonderful years in a wonderful world of Mercer runabouts . . . Upmanns from Leavitt & Peirce and the reasonably low bail conventionally set at Boston's Precinct Station 16 for Harvard undergraduates...
...credit investigators, a man who can chisel a bank is rare indeed. Last week, after a fortnight at their adding machines, red-faced country bankers in three Eastern states totted up losses of better than $800,000 as victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike...