Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency supplied information about Maheu in connection with his successful defamation suit against Hughes for calling him a thief. For their part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a now defunct public relations firm in Washington that...
...Another 5-4 vote led to the imposition of at least $2 million in fines on the Continental Baking Company, which had bought three smaller firms in alleged violation of a 1962 consent agreement with the Justice Department. Lower courts ruled that Continental -itself now part of ITT-should pay a single fine of $5,000 for each illegal acquisition. The majority insisted that firm antitrust enforcement requires a daily $1,000 fine for as long as the companies are improperly retained. The tough decision raised court watchers' eyebrows for another reason. The majority had taken an essentially liberal...
...Allende would have otherwise been offered exile. The way LeMoyne words it, it sounds as if the U.S. were to be blamed for somehow assassinating Allende! The author also makes some unsupported generalizations such as the statement about E1 Mercurio, the opposition paper, being "funded by the CIA and ITT." I wonder what LeMoyne's sources are for saying this? The Communist Journal perhaps? During the entire editorial, he also criticizes American intervention in Chile. However, he also criticizes American neutrality during the coup itself. This is obviously an ideological contradiction. He seems to believe that American intervention in Chile...
RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST, 51, Attorney General. Pleaded guilty to refusing to testify fully during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1972, when he stated falsely that Nixon had never pressured him to soften the Government's antitrust drive against ITT; received a one-month suspended sentence...
...REINECKE, 51, Lieutenant Governor of California. Convicted of lying during the Kleindienst confirmation hearings about the date on which he informed Mitchell of a $400,000 offer from ITT to the Republican National Convention; received an 18-month suspended sentence...