Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voloshen joined forces with Bobby Baker, then secretary to the Senate Democratic majority, who was later convicted of theft, conspiracy and tax evasion. Their scheme was to buy the Bank of Miami Beach. Baker promised to swing deposits of Government funds into the bank, and Labor Racketeer Jack McCarthy agreed to pour union money into the vaults. Voloshen was to put together a syndicate to buy the bank. The deal collapsed when Voloshen was unable to meet his part of the bargain...
...speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
...report earlier this month the exchange this Spring of up to 50 students between Adams and South Houses, depending on the number of Adams students willing to move. Adams would be intergrated by suites, while South would be divided intoseparate floors. Winthrop and North Houses would follow a similar scheme...
...HRPC meeting last week, a tentative scheme was developed which would improve communication between the undergraduate body and the Faculty following the recommendations of the Fainsod Committee...
Formidable Problems. Now the nation's rising awareness of ecology has moved scores of judges to listen. In the past summer alone, a federal judge delayed Walt Disney Productions' ski-resort scheme in California's Mineral King Valley until conservation groups can have their say in court. A six-lane highway planned to run along the Hudson River was stopped when conservationists cited an obscure law requiring congressional approval of any project involving a dike on an interstate navigable waterway...