Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's No. 1 witness was John Charles Doerfer, 53, a Wisconsin lawyer named to the FCC by President Eisenhower in 1953, and appointed chairman in mid-1957. Relentlessly, Schwartz piled up testimony and documents showing that Republican Doerfer had collected "honorariums" (not very lavish, usually $100) for speeches to various broadcasting-industry gatherings outside Washington. On these trips Doerfer traveled at Government expense, collecting $12 per diem allowances, although his hosts often paid his hotel bills. Most picked-over trip: a 1954 expedition during which Doerfer 1) took part in the dedication of a station KWTV tower...
With the road back blocked. Pérez Jiménez idled away the hours in plush exile in the Dominican Republic's lavish Hotel Embajador. won $3,000 at roulette one evening in the hotel casino. With Fellow Exile Juan Perón of Argentina he went sightseeing, and the two presumably discussed their next moves. Perón had expressed a hankering for a slow boat ride to Europe, where he reportedly has millions stowed away in Swiss banks. Pérez Jiménez and Chief Cop Estrada may seek private asylum...
Under questioning by Arkansas' John McClellan and his staff last week, officials of San Francisco's 24,000-member Local No. 3 told of lavish till-raiding under tough old (75) Victor S. Swanson, who bossed the local from 1941 until the I.U.O.E.'s executive board elbowed him out last summer. Items...
...report of a successful operation to reporters three minutes after the surgeons had finished and 16 minutes before the President was wheeled back to his hospital room. In 36 hours Hagerty held 14 press conferences, but he generally kept newsmen and doctors apart, was by no means so lavish with medical details as in Denver. Says Hagerty: "A presidential heart attack is the property of the people. But we did not consider the ileitis something that endangered the President's life...
...show the boys that he is earning his pay and perquisites, a big-time labor leader has to compete with heads of other unions in thinking up lavish demands to put before management at bargaining time. For the Steelworkers' suave President Dave McDonald, this problem was already worrisome, even though his union's contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy...