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Donovan is not the kind of crony to Reagan that Lance was to Carter. Indeed, the President was on solid ground in not criticizing the Secretary while Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman was still investigating Donovan's conduct as a vice president for labor relations of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nonetheless, Reagan need not have publicly downgraded the increasing seriousness of the Donovan situation...
...executive vice president in charge of labor relations, that it had hired private detectives to do its own investigation of people who have raised allegations against Donovan. These, presumably, would include FBI informers, the members and staff of the Hatch committee, and perhaps even Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who was appointed in December to look into the charges raised against Donovan. Theodore Geiser, a Schiavone attorney, said that the company's gumshoes were also told to find out "who is deliberately leaking information to the media to prejudice an ongoing investigation." Schiavone's concern, he explained, was that...
TIME has also learned that Special Prosecutor Silverman and his staff are looking into a meeting between Donovan and Douglas LaChance, a convicted labor racketeer. It took place in a bar at New York City's Hotel Algonquin on the evening of Jan. 10.1978. LaChance was then head of a newspaper drivers' union that had interfered with the delivery of the New York Trib, a troubled morning tabloid that failed after publishing for a mere three months. Donovan's company had invested $370,000 in the newspaper, according to Leonard Saffir, its founder and publisher. William Casey...
...public official or, for that matter, on any citizen." Through a spokesman, Donovan said that he had nothing to do with Schiavone's hiring detectives. Although he has done little to help the Reagan Administration gain labor support, the Secretary appears secure in his job, at least until Silverman completes his investigation. Donovan still has his defenders in the Administration, including Helene von Damm, President Reagan's influential personal secretary, who next week is being promoted to White House personnel director. Donovan helped her raise campaign funds for Reagan in New Jersey in 1980; she subsequently urged that...
...breakfast clubbers like Movie Producer Alan Silverman, a meal of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee at the Polo Lounge is also a chance to catch up on industry gossip. Others say the meal adds an important new extension to the workday. Says Seagram Vice President Mary Cunningham, who had breakfast with Bendix Chairman William Agee at the Helmsley Palace in New York shortly before they announced their engagement: "You are always looking for social situations where you can do business, and breakfast increases those times...