Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before the final returns were in last week, followers of ousted Dictator Juan Perón began talking loudly of their payoff for handing Argentina's presidency to Lawyer Arturo Frondizi (TIME. March 3). Just as quickly, the 49-year-old President-elect began hedging. There was no doubt that Frondizi owed his victory to the exiled strongman; whether it was a collectible debt remained to be seen...
Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, he said, had taken a $2,650 payoff for casting the deciding vote in favor of granting a lucrative Miami television channel to a subsidiary of National Airlines. The money, Schwartz said, came from well-to-do Miami Lawyer Thurman A. Whiteside, who had a reputation as, "to use the colloquial term, 'a fixer.' " Added Schwartz: "Mr. Whiteside himself has been, and I believe still is, subject to disbarment proceedings." Schwartz's catalogue of evidence included a wire recording secretly made at his direction by his aide, Herbert Wachtell, while questioning...
...required by law for national union officials or for the delegates to national electing conventions. Embezzlement of union funds, false statements or entries and the willful destruction of union records would become a felony. Also a felony for any employer or union representative: to offer or receive a payoff for influencing labor relations. Unions found guilty of failure to file full and proper reports would be denied the services of the National Labor Relations Board and federal income-tax exemption...
...guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting in on the Navy Polaris project. Said Richard Horner. Air Force Assistant Secretary for Research and Development, last week: "There is the possibility of a very clear payoff for both...
Crime does pay, especially when-as in this novel-it is 1) skillfully packaged as fiction, 2) taken by the Book-of-the-Month Club, 3) sold to the movies before publication, and 4) optioned by a Broadway producer. The payoff in this case goes to John D. Voelker, 54, a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Using the pseudonym of Robert Traver, he writes out of 23 years' experience as a trial lawyer and county prosecutor in Ishpeming (pop. 9,400), a mining center set amid the rocks, swamps and forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula...