Word: parvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejection by mostly liberal Senators of Nixon's Supreme Court nominees, Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell. But there was more to it than that. It was also based on Douglas' unseemly $12,000 annual fee from a scholarship-granting foundation set up by Albert Parvin, who had links to Las Vegas...
...fellow public servant. After the Nixon Administration was stung by Senate rebuffs of two nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ford led an impeachment drive against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Ford charged that Douglas had received an annual retainer of $12,000 from the Albert Parvin Foundation, which reportedly had underworld connections in Las Vegas. Ford also denounced the Justice for writing an article for Evergreen Review in which he seemed to sanction violent revolution in America. Waving a copy of the magazine, Ford pointed out that Douglas' article appeared in the salacious company of photos of nude...
...PARVIN A. DAMANIA Bombay
Almost immediately, the market began to plunge, and Tsai's portfolios did worse than more conservative funds. He took a drubbing on such unfortunate investments as National Student Marketing, Parvin-Dohrmann and Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America, Inc. Anyone who bought 100 shares of Manhattan Fund for $1,000 at its 1966 offering would have been left with about half that last week, not counting dividends. Tsai was to some extent merely unlucky, but he was also unwise to use his freewheeling investment strategies in the uncertain market of the past few years...
...minute House speech, Ford reviewed Douglas' nine-year association with the Albert Parvin Foundation, which aids students from underdeveloped countries but had links to Las Vegas gamblers. Though Douglas resigned from the foundation last year and has denied any knowledge of underworld connections. Ford charged that he had improperly given Parvin legal advice while on the court. Ford mentioned Parvin links to Bobby Baker, thus implying the same for Douglas. He scored the Justice's affiliation with the "leftish" Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas...