Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evers does not even accept his meager $75-a-month salary as mayor of impoverished Fayette, but he owns a restaurant, liquor store and motel in town. The indictment "should prove all niggers aren't on welfare," said Evers last week, after proclaiming his innocence. He added that he had repeatedly told the Internal Revenue Service that he would pay whatever they said he owed, "but they told me very frankly, 'No, we want you.' " That was a distortion, said an IRS official: "We just told him that we weren't there to collect money, that...
...Clemente, Calif., townspeople were beginning to realize that their days of fame were about over. A motel clerk, giving directions to a man who had just reserved a room by telephone, said carelessly, "We're easy to find, we're right across the freeway from the Western White House." After a pause he added, "Let me correct that: the former Western White House...
Down the street from the Western White House, a friendly innkeeper posted a word of encouragement on his motel marquee: MR. PRESIDENT, TO BE GREAT IS TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD. HANG IN THERE. It was perhaps the most heartening message that Richard Nixon received all week...
This, of course, is good news for businessmen. For example, John Anselmi's Outlaw Inn motel has enjoyed a 99% occupancy rate for 18 months, and Anselmi has sold 400 mobile homes (average price: $14,000) at his Wheel Estates showroom in the past year...
Brother Paul Anselmi has a flourishing auto dealership, a National Car Rental agency and various motel properties, and Uncle Angelo Anselmi's real estate business has climbed 40% since...