Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sale. The candidates have devoted most of their energies to name-calling. Shapp charges that Shafer is a "Goldwaterite" and "against everything that benefits the public." Shafer pictures Shapp as an "eccentric" whose proposals are either "crackbrained" or "crazy." Shapp claims that Shafer "already has pawned the governorship" to "fat-cat hidden bosses." Shafer says that Shapp is out to buy the state, passes out buttons showing a NOT FOR SALE sign plastered across a photo of the statehouse...
...California Supreme Court decisions that threw out the voters' overwhelming approval of state constitutional amendments. When Californians went to the ballot box and banned pay TV, ruled the state court, they violated the First Amendment right of free expression. When they toppled laws barring racial discrimination in the sale or rental of private housing, said the court, their vote amounted to discriminatory "state action" that violated the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Now the nation's top court must decide whether to review those decisions or let them stand...
...additional sum, those cops who accept pay-offs (and again, reliable estimates are not to be found) are willing to overlook a number of other offenses which may be carried on at whiskey houses -- gambling, prostitution, sale of stolen items. The general rule of thumb: add $5 per man for each additional vice...
Unregistered Sale. Wolfson and an associate, Elkin ("Buddy") Gerbert, were charged with conspiracy in the 1960-62 sale of 690,000 shares of Continental Enterprises, Inc., a Jacksonville company that operates movie theaters. The heart of the indictment is that Wolfson and some associates unloaded the shares without registering the transaction with the SEC, as the law demands for such sales of "control" stock...
...shares, and his family and friends-including Gerbert, who placed the sell orders with eight different firms-sold off 283,000 shares. In all, Wolfson and his group got $3,500,000 for the stock, and Wolfson's profit alone came to about $1,500,000. Since the sale, Continental has run in the red every year, and the stock that was sold is now worth less than...