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...dinner guest seated beside one of Nixon's wealthy friends tried to converse about the talent that the President had assembled. It was like getting a Dun & Bradstreet report. Each man's worth to the Republic was based on his portfolio. When someone raised doubts about Nixon Booster W. Clement Stone, an astonished White House staff member protested: "He must be great! They say he's made $200 million...
...sonnets in Vaudeville for a Princess (a copy of which I passed up in a Washington D.C. antiquarian dealder's shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions and out-of-print books have passed through the hands of less than two thousand readers...
Already indicted were seven full-time FHA employees, two part-time FHA employees, eight real estate firms and ten lawyers. Shockingly, the indictments also named Dun & Bradstreet, long the ultimate arbiter of the credit status of businesses and individuals, and one of the firm's executives. The main lender indicted was Eastern Service Corp., owned by Harry Bernstein and his wife Rose, one of the biggest and until now among the most respected mortgage dealers on Long Island...
...would be urged to inflate his own income in his application to the FHA, which is supposed to determine whether a purchaser can really afford the housing. He would sometimes do this by listing a job he did not really hold. The indictments claim that in some cases Dun & Bradstreet would verify this baseless credit rating. FHA would agree to stand behind the mortgage, and Eastern Service would lend the buyer the money. The buyer would then often discover that the house was badly in need of repair, or that the mortgage payments were higher than he expected...
Several said that their refusal was based on doubts about Scanlan's financial situation, but Dun & Bradstreet says that the magazine's latest net worth is $497,976. Scanlan's Editor Sidney E. Zion says that the refusal is an inexcusable act of censorship by the printers. The magazine finally found a printer in Canada, which was understandably reluctant to encourage bombers. Montreal police seized some 100,000 copies on the technicality that the necessary permit had not been obtained. Last week, while Scanlan's lawyer Israel Schawartzberg was rounding up the necessary signatures, he died...