Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least two more witnesses met with subcommittee investigators and were prepared to testify about Roosevelt's alleged security misdealings. According to Subcommittee Chairman Jackson, attempts to interview Roosevelt about this during a visit to Florida in August were unsuccessful, and a public airing of the alleged-assassination-plot portion of the testimony was not planned until Roosevelt could be reached...
...intelligence sources contended that the documents outlining the purported plot were circulated in Mexico by one Richard Alexander Zander, 31, an ex-convict and accused kidnaper who fled the U.S. last month while on parole from McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington State, where he had served time for transporting stolen goods. A U.S. court has issued a warrant for his arrest as a fugitive from justice...
...industrial parks has tripled in a decade. Suburban residential property has been gaining in value by some 8% a year. The average price of the land under a house with a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage is now $5,300, up about 80% since 1963, while the average plot size has shrunk from about 11,000 sq. ft. in 1965 to 7,000 sq. ft. Farm land has almost doubled in value since 1963, to an average $247 per acre. In the past ten years, the consumer price index has risen only about...
...President develop into a cryptofascist who plans to undermine the legislative arm of the Government and suspend elections−"just this once." The Secretary joins the Vice President (Willard Waterman), the President's spiritual counsel−the Rev. Jimmy Williams (Joseph Sirola)−and other advisers in a plot to remove the Chief Executive by literally blasting him out of office...
Chief rattles along on the intricacies of its plot-and-conspiracy narrative, but its humor is dispensed with all the subtlety of a bazooka blast. In the middle of an important conference, the President accepts a Paris call from "Henry," who places a rush order for some Reuben's cheesecake. The Rev. Mr. Williams assures a troubled Chief that "in times of distress, prayer is a powerful laxative...