Word: cannon
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When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
...jury found the conspirators guilty on all eleven counts of the indictment, which charged that the defendants had "cut a deal" with Cannon in a face-to-face meeting in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 1979, and agreed to sell the Senator 5.8 acres of choice Teamster-owned property at a $200,000 discount in exchange for his help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. In fact, the deal hardly got beyond the talking stage, and Cannon voted for the deregulation bill when the Senate passed...
...worry about it.' " Williams testified that he promised Cannon only a "fair chance" to bid on the land, and said the Jan. 10 meeting was arranged simply to lobby the Senator. Cannon, who lost a bid for a fifth Senate term in November and was not charged in the case, testified he had neither been offered nor had accepted a bribe. The mostly blue-collar jury of six men and six women deliberated 27 hours over four days before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict...
...wall of their kitchen is a sampler, which Paul had made to commemorate a remark by Joanne "that seemed appropriate at the time." It says, "I will regulate my life. JWN." The sampler shows a lit light bulb and an exploding cannon: husband's view of wife's character. Since then Joanne has attended est sessions and resolved to stop "choosing to be in Paul's shadow" and to stop apologizing for being what she calls "a creative dilettante." Says she: "As I look back, I think what I really wanted was to have a life with...
Reagan's practical intelligence was the deducted from experience," Cannon said, "He feels the system has worked for him." The journalist cited this mentality to explain Reugan's economic programs which Cannon said were designed to make deeper and swifter recoveries than actually possible...