Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Central of Georgia, 1952-53; New York, New Haven & Hartford, 1954-56; Boston & Maine, 1956-62), but went off the track in 1965 when he was convicted of engineering kickbacks in the sale of B & M surplus cars and sentenced to 18 months in jail; in Glendale, Ohio...
...such a troublesome and expensive switch? The main reason is that since the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911, no company can use the name Standard nationally-not even the name Esso, which comes from S.O. Jersey Standard used Esso in the East, Humble in Ohio and Enco elsewhere. With the Exxon name the company can eliminate wasteful overlap in production and promotion costs...
Like many other corporate commanders, Rex Humbard dresses in expensive suits, commutes to his office in a Cadillac and jets to out-of-town appointments in the company plane. His Ohio-based conglomerate issues securities, reports annual revenues of $8,000,000 and has assets worth some $30 million. Yet Humbard, 53, is no ordinary businessman. He is a guitar-picking, down-home evangelist (TIME, May 17, 1971) with a following of 25 million weekly television viewers on 400 stations in the U.S. and foreign countries...
This expanding circle of presidential "agents" is largely the creation of two of Nixon's closest and toughest aides, John Ehrlichman and H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, referred to openly and jocularly by Ohio Republican Senator William Saxbe as those "two Nazis Nixon keeps around him." A key operator in selecting and placing the agents is Fred Malek, 36, former chief of the White House personnel office, who has now acquired a pivotal Government-wide supervisory job as Deputy Director of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget. Nixon had given Malek the choice of a Cabinet position ("a small department...
...being delinquent. Since then, repossession statutes have been quietly dying in a number of states, most recently in Alaska, Iowa and Massachusetts. Along with repossession, the lower courts have taken up landlord-and-tenant laws, as well as the conduct of state-regulated utilities. In Colorado, New York, Ohio and Minnesota, gas and electric companies have now been warned that they may no longer automatically shut off service when a computer says the bill has gone unpaid for too long. The customer may not always be right, but due process says he at least has the right to be heard...