Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of the death to the Estes case was emphasized in a legal wrangle between Texas Attorney General Will Wilson and federal officials over an Agriculture Department report on Estes' cotton dealings to which Marshall had apparently contributed. Wilson tried to subpoena the whole report. But Secretary Orville Freeman's Agriculture Department was willing to divulge only excerpts...
...Billie Sol Estes case was no laughing matter-to Freeman or anyone else. It was the case of a welfare-state Ponzi. It was a scandal that had already brought about the resignation or dismissal of four Kennedy Administration officials. It had politicians and bureaucrats of all degrees and of both parties shaking in their boots. It had set off investigations galore. It had called into question the whole administration of the mighty U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...away for observation. Result: Miss Jones was dragged off to a mental hospital and held for 13 days until a judge ordered her released to the custody of her sister and her own doctor. Says Miss Jones: "It was all a horrible nightmare." Irrelevant Defense. Republican leaders charged that Freeman and his department had mishandled everything connected with the Estes case, from the grain-storage bond to Miss Mary Jones. At his press conference last week, President Kennedy came to Freeman's defense but on rather odd grounds-not that Freeman had been doing a good job but that...
When Morris failed to appear for departmental questioning about his relations with Estes, Secretary Freeman fired him outright...
...chalk and tape measure and worked on a suit that Ralph was trying on. Since Ralph persisted in denying that he got any clothing, his case remained hanging until last week, when further investigation showed that he had used an Estes credit card to pay for personal telephone calls. Freeman fired...