Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol bluntly warned Agriculture investigators that if the department tried to change "in the middle of the game" the regulations under which he had built up his cotton holdings, he would "take the matter to the Secretary and the President if necessary...
...Billie Sol's low bond was based in part on a financial statement listing his net worth at $13.7 million that was submitted in February 1961 by Winn P. Jackson, a Lubbock, Texas, certified public accountant. But Jackson testified that the statement actually had been drawn up by Billie Sol himself. Jackson said that when he told Estes he would have to check into the facts before he could approve the statement, Billie Sol replied: "Why? There's nothing wrong with it. The only place it's going is somewhere up in the Agriculture Department." Said Jackson...
...congressional hearings were hardly under way before Republican subcommittee members began clamoring for more exciting witnesses, including Billie Sol himself. Chairman L. H. Fountain, figuring that Estes would only take the Fifth Amendment, had no immediate plans for calling Billie Sol. Still, with Senator John McClellan preparing to hold hearings, two grand juries at work in Texas, and 76 FBI agents on the prowl, there seemed every reason to agree with Fountain's forecast: "I think Mr. Estes is likely to find a place in history as one of the most, if not the most, thoroughly investigated individuals...
...emergency stockpiling. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington, the subcommittee chairman, expansively told a news conference that his three months of hearings had disclosed that "the taxpayers stand to lose over $1 billion as a result of these stockpile operations-far greater than any I have seen in the Billie Sol Estes case...
...calling him a Communist. Some Connally supporters did, in fact, place an ad that posed this choice: "Connally Go Ahead Versus C.I.O. Red." Neither did Connally's backers discourage the notion that Don Yarborough is kin to Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has been linked to Billie Sol Estes. (Don and Ralph are not related...