Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ehrlichman had to admit he had not even told Nixon of his early awareness of the cash payments, had not told the FBI that Burglar G. Gordon Liddy had sought then Attorney General Richard Kleindienst's help on June 17, 1972, in getting Burglar James McCord out of jail, or told FBI agents that he suspected the Nixon re-election committee might have been involved in the bugging...
...factory" for explosives: fire bombs wired to watches and American-made booby traps as well as arms and ammunition. More important, they found and arrested Tommy Maguire, one of the Provisionals' top explosive experts, who had been at large since he escaped from Belfast's Crumlin Road jail four years...
...longer has to compete with their chants. But the ambassador knows that the questions remain: "We expected to get the support of the democratic world. But we have found there's a worldwide effort to create the image of a country where everyone is tortured and put in jail. Chile is an open country--anyone can go there." With the whirlwind of claim and counter-claim, assertion and denial that envelops the military junta ruling Chile, perhaps Heitmann's exhortation to his audience to "go to Chile to see it for yourself" was the most unquestionable statement he could have...
...perfect institution"), Whitney's personal affairs deteriorated to the point where he embezzled money from the estate of his father-in-law. In 1938 his financial position finally collapsed in one of the largest personal bankruptcies in American history, and later in the same year he went to jail. His self-possession never failed him; he wore his Porcellian chain prominently at his trial. In the last weeks before his indictment, Whitney asked hundreds of people for loans--usually requesting "a hundred" meaning $100,000--even from lower-grade Stock Exchange employees who had nowhere near that kind of money...
...also instructive to remember that, in the end, Whitney got sent to jail not for any of the shady speculative devices he sanctioned as President of the Exchange during the early thirties, which may have ruined nearly as many small investors as the Great Crash itself, but for stealing money from the New York Yacht Club. The closed circle of the financial elite were willing to forgive Whitney almost anything but stealing from the Yacht Club meant Sing Sing and an end to his membership on Harvard's Ec department Visiting Committee...