Word: conflict-of-interest
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Glass, Right or Wrong. For the most part, The Case Against Congress reports conflict-of-interest cases, many of them unblushingly straightforward. Congressman Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm...
...Times." The gibe against his old foe, the most powerful daily in the West (circ. 861,350), has earned Yorty many a laugh. No longer. By last week, the six-year-old Yorty administration was up to its funny bone in its first major scandal, a real-life conflict-of-interest case exposed, naturally, by the L.A. Times...
...town government of Islip, N.Y.; inside of a year, 14 high-ranking officials quietly resigned. So Newsday, the Long Island daily, started to poke into the matter. The more it poked, the more it found. After three months' digging, the paper finally unearthed the kind of conflict-of-interest scandal that every editor dreams...
Died. Nicholas Kelley, 80, longtime (1937-57) director and general counsel of Chrysler Corp. and senior partner of Kelley, Drye, the Manhattan law firm whose 1960 probe of conflict-of-interest charges involving Chrysler executives toppled President William C. Newberg (his holdings in companies supplying the automaker earned him more than $450,000) and touched off an avalanche of stockholder suits that forced the resignation of flamboyant Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert; of a stroke; in Teaneck...
Most of Bolling's reform proposals are unrelated to the rest of the book. Proposals for stricter conflict-of-interest controls on Congressmen, for an Administrative People's Counsel like that in Sweden--he would do most of the Congressional "messenger boy" work--and for streamlined committee procedures are all praiseworthy. But they seem peripheral to the basic power questions with which Bolling claims to be concerned...