Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Legal Fee. In a related action last week, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. was fined a maximum $35,000 in federal court in Washington after pleading guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to Democratic and Republican candidates in 1968, 1970 and 1972, including Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, South Dakota Senator James Abourezk and Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills...
...committee's vast accumulation of evidence that was presented by Special Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Tenner through eleven weeks of closed hearings and laid out in 36 notebooks of "statements of information." Rodino had one main aim as the days of decision approached: to secure maximum committee support for any articles of impeachment that would be recommended to the House. He knew that there was no hope of enlisting about ten Republicans firmly committed to Nixon's defense, but he hoped that articles could be drawn in a way that would attract the remaining Republicans, all troubled...
...committee. These men, Flowers, Mann and Thornton, were offended by Nixon's encroachment on the Constitution and on such agencies as the FBI and IRS. They also are persuasive, soft-sell politicians with an ability to find common cause with the undecided Republicans. The key to gaining maximum support for articles, one House leader explained, was "to put together the Southern Democrats and the Republicans." The way to do that, this veteran told Rodino, was "to get Walter Flowers...
...have made a "mistake" under oath. Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard J. Davis used a harsher term. Said he: "Reinecke deliberately lied for one reason-to protect the still very powerful John Mitchell, a man who could help him become Governor." Reinecke, who will appeal the verdict, faces a maximum term of five years and a fine...
...thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged goods. As for her date: well, the boy was just growing up. Most of the time, however, he remained stymied-by moral strictures, by lack of privacy and even by such fashionable devices as the merry widow, a maximum-security fence disguised as a bra and waist cincher...