Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House athletics, "a fundamental part of the whole system," draws criticism for its lack of organization. The Committee recommends additional coaches, to be paid by the University. According to the report, this step would eliminate confusion, lighten the burden of the Athletic Secretary, and "add certain incentive and spirit to the team effort...
...other Utah visits since 1956, and rode off to address a joint session of the legislature. "Like you, we in Massachusetts came to our state under great difficulties," he told descendants of Mormon pioneers. "We, too, had great faith in our churches." With photogenic wife Jacqueline alongside, he paid a cordial call on the Mormon Church's powerful officialdom. In the scheduled two-hour prop-stop, extended to 31, Jack Kennedy acted like what he is: the front-running candidate for presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention next year...
...quite the independence to have it" (he took no stand in the fight over the late Joe McCarthy); 2) Jack's father, Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain, is "spending oodles of money all over the country" on Jack's candidacy, "probably has paid representatives in every state." Challenged to name one hired agent, Mrs. Roosevelt answered that "my information came largely from remarks made by people in many places...
...huffily turned down another. A beer shop the government helped him to open flopped. Blaming all his troubles on the government, Macharia decided on revenge. In November he signed an affidavit for People's Convention Party Leader Tom Mboya charging that the Kenya government had paid...
...Month. The government, insisting that it had paid him only to testify, not to lie, promptly put Macharia on trial for signing a false affidavit. In its own defense it argued that some sort of inducement was necessary to get testimony, since 36 potential witnesses against Kenyatta had been murdered...