Word: samuel
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Committed to cracking down on official corruption when he took the job, Thompson was well aware that such cases often present complicated proof problems. Bribery, conflict-of-interest and conspiracy prosecutions usually contain gray areas easily exploited by defense attorneys. Then Samuel Skinner, now Thompson's chief deputy, came across a 1941 case in Louisiana in which a federal mail-fraud statute was used to prosecute former associates of Huey Long. The defendants had happened to use the mail in the collection of inflated fees for a bond deal. Thompson's men looked closely and with growing delight...
...consumers find they have some money left over after paying their heating bills, they plan to spend it cautiously. Fuel and heating bills finally compelled Samuel Trepanier to mothball his truck in his backyard in Clarendon, Vt. When the President announced his program, Trepanier figured: "If the rebate comes to more than $300, I'll get my pickup back on the road...
...fall of 1971, when word came that Attica prisoners had revolted and were holding hostages, Alpert says she knew instantly that Melville would be killed. As she tells it, confirmation came from a Los Angeles radio announcer who said, "Here's one death no one will regret-Samuel Melville, the mad bomber." In her grief, she blurted out to a friend that she had known one of the Attica victims. When the friend innocently passed the word around, Alpert took to the road once again...
...They can learn so quickly with their hands they are like monkeys." 57. Gross National Happiness. 58. Richard Whitney; the New York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take and how much will it cost?" 61. Wealthy people should have multiple votes. 62. Samuel Insull. The testimony of bankrupt stockbrokers--but he was acquitted anyway. 63. In a poker game. 64. Riding freight cars. 65. Henry Ford II. 66. Buy stocks. 67. John D. Rockefeller. 68. Jojn D. Rockefeller. 69. American big business. 70. Dsitributing dimes among children. 71. He disapproved of the picture...
Such a shift to political struggle was in the interest of the PRG partly because it would have meant that refugees driven into Vietnam's cities when American planes bombed their villages--the effect that Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, described as "forced-draft urbanization"--could return to the countryside. In the countryside, they were beyond the reach of the Saigon government's police, and besides, Vietnam's peasants had always been the NLF's main social base--that was why forced-draft urbanization was such an effective strategy. Though military tactics were the only ones by which...