Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the dark side of that life was revealed by the Wall Street Journal in a vivid, 4,000-word expose. The newspaper disclosed not only that Fedders abused his wife, but that he was in financial difficulties for living beyond his means, and that questions still lingered about his role in an alleged cover-up by a former client, Southland Corp., convicted of criminal conspiracy. Fedders acknowledged seven "regrettable episodes" of wife abuse and publicly expressed remorse. But that was not enough to satisfy the White House. At midweek, after 3 1/2 eventful years at the SEC, Fedders...
...efforts to crack down on insider trading, Fedders engineered an unprecedented agreement with Swiss authorities that made it harder for inside traders to hide behind Swiss banking secrecy laws. He also launched the probe that resulted in the indictment of a Wall Street Journal reporter for passing tips to investors before publishing them in his column. Fedders withdrew from that case after one of the targets of the investigation retained counsel from his old law firm. While some associates found Fedders overbearing, the consensus at the agency and on Wall Street was that he was a tough, thoroughgoing official...
...notes, which begin on September 29, 1792 and appear to be part of a larger journal, chronicle the scenery, wildlife and weather viewed by Macartney during his stay in China...
...said yesterday that the notes "have probably been hidden away inside the 19th century missionary journal since the time that the latter came to Harvard...
...name "Acneas Anderson," heads the first of the four pages. Lum said that he did not at first know who Anderson was, but after consulting a scholarly review off Macartney's journal he discovered that Anderson was Macartney's personal servant during the mission...