Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police...
Meanwhile Senator Jones, using intermediaries, was trying to work out a settlement with Hobby. In the end, the Lieutenant Governor gave in, agreeing to stop his parliamentary efforts to save the bill. The measure was then defeated. When the fugitives returned to the senate, they were cheered from the galleries...
This week two powerful members of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Republican Barber Conable and Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, will submit a bill calling for a very similar 5-10 depreciation plan. They have dropped the one-year aspect because it is too difficult and costly to...
Even with federally demanded outlays excluded, the JoAes-Conable plan would produce a cut of $15 billion to $20 billion in Treasury revenues. To avoid so great a loss, the Congressmen plan to have the program phased in over several years; they would allow business to reduce its taxes-and...
White did not plead not guilty by reason of insanity, largely because no psychiatrist would say that he was sufficiently deranged. Schmidt asked the jury to find that White's "diminished mental capacity" left him unable to premeditate, deliberate, or harbor malice, the standards for first degree murder. One...