Word: kickback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buddy who, like Baker, is a big Serv-U stockholder. Hill's suit, with the publicity it generated, was the pin that popped Baker's soaring balloon. In the suit Hill charged that Baker negotiated to get Capitol's machines into Melpar, then demanded a monthly kickback. Hill said he paid Baker $5,600 over 16 months. He also charged that when Baker wanted Hill to sell out to Serv-U and he refused, Baker talked Melpar into dropping its Capitol contract...
...racket that has grown up from the rush for higher education. To the dismay of reputable college counselors, a number of unscrupulous advisers work covert retainers from academically weak, dishonest colleges, charge parents big fees to get dull-witted youngsters into those same colleges-and then get a kickback (10% of tuition) from the college...
From tax cheating Gibney moves on to the kickback artists in business, the most spectacular among them being unquestionably a New York dress buyer named Stanley Sternberg, who worked for a branch of Sears, Roebuck. When he was shown the door in 1952, it appeared that manufacturers who wanted him to place orders with them, in addition to making regular payments, had fed him daily, clothed him and his family, partly furnished his home. One manufacturer was assigned to take Sternberg's aged parents to dinner almost nightly; the wife of another was pressed into service to supply...
...small island of Equatoria floats like a banana peel on the blue ocean swell of the Caribbean. The democratic Equatori-ans are engaged in their annual ritual revolution, and two local swindlers named Lopez and Pardo dread the rising "reform" dictator. Lopez mulcts tourists and gets a kickback from the police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly...