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...minute deletion of a Watergate conversation between Nixon and his intimate aide, H.R. Haldeman. It would have exceeded both their purview and their competence. But in reporting to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the conversation had been erased by pushing buttons on a tape recorder at least five???and probably nine ?times, they had found, in effect, that this destruction of evidence necessarily had to be deliberate. Until someone within the White House steps forward to admit that his or her fingers pushed those keys to wipe out the conversation, the cover-up cannot, indeed, be considered...
...Exchange officials disclosed that nine other firms are so near failure that they have stopped or may soon be forced to stop doing business with the public. In addition to Dempsey-Tegeler, four are formally being liquidated: McDonnell & Co., Gregory & Sons, Baerwald & Deboer, and Amott, Baker & Co. The other five???Meyerson & Co., Fusz-Schmelzle & Co., Blair & Co., Orvis Bros. & Co., and Kleiner, Bell & Co. ?are headed for liquidation because of capital problems. A couple of the biggest firms in the business, while not in danger of extinction, are widely reported to be losing roughly $1,000,000 a month...
...trimming is still going on. Since the Chief's death, the Hearst organization has added only one paper (the Albany, N.Y., Knickerbocker News) while eliminating five???the last only last week, when Hearst's 125-year-old Milwaukee Sentinel (circ. 192,899), weakened by a prolonged strike, was sold to the independent Journal (370937). Scripps-Howard, too, has been forced to economize, has not added a link to the chain since...
...minority of five???Chairman Wickersham, William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, William Squire Kenyon of Illinois, Kenneth Mackintosh of Washington, Paul John McCormick of California?favored further trial of Prohibition...
...spent several millions?just how many millions is not known?in buying up evening newspapers in Manhattan. He bought the Globe and the Mail and consolidated them respectively with his Sun and his Telegram. Where there had been seven generally circulating evening newspapers in Manhattan he reduced them to five???at his own expense. He did it in the interest of what he believed was sound business. He probably believes that even five are too many for one city. Now the announcement is made that within two weeks an enterprising Bostoner will start a new evening paper in Manhattan...
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