Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon order the payment of hush money to E. Howard Hunt? One of the reasons that Dean laid out the cover-up for Nixon on March 21 was that at least one of the jailed Watergate seven was escalating his money demand for keeping silent. The immediate problem was a fresh request for $120,000 by Hunt, the CIA alumnus and White House consultant who had pleaded guilty to break-in and bugging charges. Dean did not know how to meet the urgent request. Hunt was threatening to tell about some of his preWatergate clandestine activities for the White House...
Under the dictatorship, the right had enjoyed such unique privileges as a law prohibiting strikes; as a result, Portuguese workers were the most poorly paid in Western Europe. How long businessmen would remain silent was still a question mark. "The families will fight like fury, like eunuchs in a seraglio, to retain their status," predicted Scares. "They will use all manner of economic and political sabotage...
...disadvantage. While he may march through studies of Southern dissent predating the Nullification crisis of the 1830s and continuing until around 1900, he cannot take a census of the Other South. Like the "Southern liberals" in the 1940s and 50s, the majority of nineteenth century dissenting Southerners were silent and they had few spokesmen in the raging debates of their times. Those who left records of their views--writers, newspaper editors, business leaders or politicians--had some access to established channels of power. As such, they had some interest in the society that they criticized and their positions may show...
John B. Butler, director of personnel and the University's sole spokesman on the strike, continued this week to remain, for the most part, silent on the negotiations or Harvard's alternative printing plans...
...whom he feels is his inferior in every way. Frederick Giles of Winnebago Terrace, Ill., graduate of Kansas State and World War II veteran who wears an American flag tie clasp, is also staying at the Rufus Arms. He would be everyone's idea of a silent American, except that he spends his evenings at the hotel bar drinking heavily, flapping his right-wing opinions wildly and baiting Adams about his own tepid liberalism...