Word: leon
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Only seven weeks ago, when Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman released a 1,025-page report stating that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute the Labor Secretary, Raymond Donovan quickly declared that his troubles were over. Not quite. Silverman has reopened his investigation, and TIME has learned that he will present fresh allegations about Donovan's conduct to grand juries in New York and elsewhere...
Directed by Paul Mazursky Screenplay by Paul Mazursky and Leon Capetanos...
Those pleased responses followed Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's release of a four-volume, 1,025-page report on his investigation into the claims of various unsavory characters, including gangsters who turned Government informers, that Donovan and his New Jersey construction company had close ties to organized crime. Silverman investigated upwards of 24 separate allegations-a "disturbing" number, he said-but concluded that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to support a successful prosecution of Donovan for any crime. A federal grand jury, which heard the evidence produced by Silverman, voted not to indict Donovan on any charge...
...converts to the Democratic cause. Aside from a resolution simplifying the income tax system, the platform is a model of artful dodges and hedges. "There seems to be a feeling that our good spirits and Reagan's problems will be enough, but they are not," observed Congressman Leon Panetta of California. "We've got to come up with bold new alternatives...
...reading Darwin. Marx soon followed. After dropping out of the University of Illinois, she went to work for $5 a week for a socialist daily, the Call, on New York's Lower East Side. One of her first assignments was to interview Leon Trotsky. Before she was 20, she became an editorial assistant at the Masses, where she met John Reed...