Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winter-Berger, in his book The Washington Payoff, of being involved in some small stock deals having to do with his membership on the board of the Old Kent Bank and Trust Co. of Grand Rapids. Winter-Berger also claims that Ford did unspecified favors for an unnamed client hi return for $50,000 donated to Republican candidates- but not Ford-in 1970. The minority leader has denied both accusations, and almost no one takes them seriously...
French colonialism was rapidly transforming Vietnamese society in the first decades of this century. Modern French agricultural techniques were opening up vast stretches of riceland and creating a new class of powerful client landlords. French labor agents were uprooting growing numbers of Vietnamese from their ancient villages and shipping them to burgeoning rubber plantations, where the Vietnamese--the French took their names away and assigned them numbers--bitterly confronted a hard and tenuous life torn from their past. Also at this time, Vietnamese national pride was increasing, particularly among the growing class of Vietnamese civil servants who the French trained...
...funds received from secret sources. Other committee testimony indicated that the funds were raised by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney. Strangely, none of the Senators, all of whom are lawyers, asked Hunt why Bittman should get such a huge fee in a case in which his client merely pleaded guilty...
...Colson may soon be indicted on charges of helping to plan the Ellsberg psychiatrist's breakin, and last week he declined to cooperate with the Ervin committee. During a two-hour private session with committee members and staffers, Colson's attorney, David Shapiro, explained that his client could testify only if granted immunity from prosecution...
...public cares little about business ethics, the7The Watergate Bad Guys The Watergate plotters included Southern rim entrepreneurs and conservative-lawyer-opportunists: H.R. HALDEMAN (left) was a Los Angeles advertising man; former presidential counsel JOHN W. DEAN III (middle) was fired from his Washington law firm for secretly aiding a client's rival in a television licensing case. JOHN EHRLICHMAN (right) saw both kinds of action: During the sixties, he alternated real estate law practice in the Far West with sometimes-clandestine campaign operations for Nixon...