Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beck, and Secret Service agents keep guard downstairs, eying visitors through bulletproof one-way glass. The fact that the former Vice President has been receiving such perquisites so angered Democratic Congressman John E. Moss that he asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week Comptroller General Elmer Staats wrote Moss that in just under two months the Government had already spent $89,132 on Agnew's staff, $2,075 for the maintenance of the town houses, $877 for office supplies and $905 to move the cartons from his old office...
...lots in Florida for $38,080. The following month, he "entered into an oral agreement with his daughter Tricia," who was then 22. (At 21, Tricia had received the proceeds of a trust fund that had been given to her nine years earlier by Nixon's wealthy friend Elmer Bobst, then the chairman of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company.) Tricia lent her father $20,000 for purchase of the Florida property, and Nixon promised to repay her that amount plus 40% of whatever profits he might make. On Dec. 28, 1972, Nixon sold the property for $150,000, making...
Since World War II, the Navy has bombed Kahoolawe island, located within 50 miles of Maui, for the purpose of training young pilots. In 1969, a defused bomb inadvertently fell into the backyard of Maui Mayor Elmer Cravalho, who since then has urged strongly that the military return Kahoolawe to Hawaii...
...elected to his first term in Congress last year by the voters of northern Maine. During his 1972 campaign, Cohen walked 600 miles through the second district--the largest Congressional district east of the Mississippi--and built up enough popular support to win an upset victory over his opponent, Elmer Violette...
Other cultural institutions named for wealthy donors are the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University, the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Malibu, Calif., and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center...