Word: lishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Committee Counsel Robert W. Lishman: In that respect, Mr. Kintner, I would like to call your attention to an article which appeared in TIME Magazine April 22, 1957, more than a year before this time. The opening sentence indicates its tenor: "Are the quiz shows rigged?" It points out with reference to a number of quiz shows that there was a great deal of suspicion. It concludes: "The producers seem to be able to control virtually everything except their own fears of losing their audience...
Kintner: Mr. Lishman, I did not read the article...
Despite the committee's threats to charge him with contempt of Congress for repetitive refusals to answer questions, Goldfine fired off a final blast against the "smear," chuckled at Counsel Robert Lishman's joking request: "Please leave me off your gift lists." "You can return it if you want," explained Goldfine, "and if you do, it will be the first time anyone did." After a final handshake with Chairman Harris, a final visit with Adams, Goldfine, surrounded by lawyers and press-agents, flew back to Boston...
Santa Claus. The subcommittee had other ideas. When Goldfine finally finished his laborious script-reading, the questions came furiously. Counsel Robert W. Lishman asked Goldfine if, as ordered, he had brought along the records pertaining to $776,879.16 in treasurer's and cashier's checks* purchased by various Goldfine-controlled companies since 1941-and still uncashed as of last...
...Adams got White House Counsel Morgan to ask why Goldfine's real estate company, the East Boston Co., was under investigation by the Securities & Exchange Commission. The reply from SEC: for noncompliance with SEC regulations on publishing financial reports. Had Adams passed this along to Goldfine? asked Counsel Lishman. Adams' answer: not to his recollection...