Word: purloins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being announced, Manhattan-based Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. sued Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. for $5 million damages, charging that Loeb Rhoades had pirated 17 salespeople out of its New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., offices. Bache also sued its former managers of those offices for conspiring with Loeb Rhoades to purloin trade secrets, and asked the New York courts to stop the firm from using any customer information that the Bache employees might have taken along with them. Loeb Rhoades strongly denies doing anything wrong...
...evoking it. Indeed, 22 top congressional Republicans gave Nixon an ovation when they met in his office and he vowed "to continue measures to ensure secrecy." Said Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott: "I hope that the President will receive the same credence that is sometimes given to thieves who purloin documents...