Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forger & Thief." Although numerous other accusations of peculation and improper use of his office have been made against Dodd, the Stennis committee based its formal recommendation for censure on two charges: that Dodd billed both the Senate and private groups for the same travel expenses, and that he wrongfully appropriated to his personal use at least $116,083 from political campaign funds...
...contended that if he had wanted to cheat in this manner, he could have done so on a grand scale rather than take merely $1,700 over five years. It was all O'Hare's fault for sloppy bookkeeping, Dodd argued, calling him "a liar and a forger and a thief." Moreover, Dodd declared, if the Senate really believed one of its members guilty of larceny, it should expel him outright rather than censure him. It was a shrewd challenge. At week's end the Senate agreed to vote separately on the billing and campaign-fund counts...
...asked at the hearing, if Dodd had really understood the money in the testimonial accounts to be his as a gift-and not a political contribution-why had he carefully avoided writing personal checks against it? Attacking O'Hare's testimony, Sonnett implied that he was a forger, brought in Handwriting Expert Charles Appel, who had testified in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, to show that a number of checks drawn on the ac count had not been signed by Dodd. The Senator himself, otherwise apathetic, was roused to his only really angry outburst of the week...
...STEAL A MILLION. Audrey Hepburn sets out to save the reputation of her father, a charming forger played by Hugh Griffith, and learns that crime can be beautiful with Peter O'Toole as an accomplice...
WALTER N. FORGER White Plains...