Word: menard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked the Provost, Walter Rosenblith, to revoke permission for the event because some of the advertising for the event failed to bear the logo of "MIT Seekers'," the official sponsors. The posters bore only the imprint of "Jews for Jesus," a movement not recognized at MIT, according to Louis Menard, special assistant to the Provost, who cited both technical and moral grounds for cancelling the event...
...Savage Menard...
...profit of $6.1 million in 1973, lost $9.2 million last year. Pratte could explain the losses as at least partly due to the rise in fuel costs. But last April, Elmer MacKay, a Tory Member of Parliament, revealed that one of Pratte's appointees, Marketing Vice President Yves Menard, had authorized a curious payment of $100,000 as a "consultant's fee" to one of Montreal's top travel agents. The fact that Menard had resigned under pressure two months earlier did not prevent a scandal from growing, so the Canadian government asked Ontario Court of Appeal...
...months of hearings, Estey turned up damaging evidence. Menard's $100,000 payment, for example, was explained as "seed money" for investment in a national chain of travel agencies. It had been disguised because both Air Canada's charter and international airline rules forbid the airline to invest in travel agencies; that could give it preferential treatment in ticketing passengers. Menard also was found to have given special "expense accounts" to Lebanese officials in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain landing rights for Air Canada in Beirut...
Regular Payoffs. Though Pratte was known to have had a hand in almost all airline decisions, down to the choice of the plastic forks for in-flight meals, he insists that he knew nothing about Menard's actions-and the evidence supports him. Yet last month Tory M.P. MacKay documented charges that the airline had been regularly paying off Canadian travel agents' "fraudulent" commission claims. What he means is illegal kickbacks on tickets. Pratte's reluctant resignation soon followed...