Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Way." The roughest of the Pearson-Anderson series came in March and April, when the columnists accused Dodd of diverting to his personal use more than $100,000 raised at testimonial dinners in 1961 and 1963, at which then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was the guest of honor. Later, it developed there was a third dinner last year featuring Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Under persistent badgering from the press, the IRS said that such income was tax-free-even if not spent on legitimate campaign purposes -provided that the donors intended the money as personal presents rather than campaign...
...Pulitzer questioned the decision. Although the board may have wanted to honor Miller posthumously, she said "this is not what the prize is supposed...
...Dubious Honor. From one of the hemisphere's newest countries, Selassie was scheduled to proceed to one of its oldest-Haiti. There, conditions are so bleak under Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city...
...accusation brought an acid reply from Coca-Cola Export Corp. Chairman James A. Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's old campaign manager. The company, snapped Farley, was not about to honor "any boycott." Fact was, he continued, that the Israeli bottler in question, the Tempo Beverage Co., was an undesirable business associate; in 1963, Coke had to go to court to make Tempo stop "infringement of the Coca-Cola trademark and bottle design." And Tempo, inevitably, was the disgruntled bottler that had complained to the Anti-Defamation League in the first place. Muttered a league spokesman: "I can't understand...
...Trumbull Professorship, which has been vacant since Key's death in 1963, was created to honor an 18th century jurist who was chief justice and then governor of Connecticut. It is an nonorary position. "I can't even graze my cows in the yard," McCloskey said...