Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile lines between Pecos, Texas, and Washington, D.C., were getting tauter and tauter as the Billie Sol Estes scandal hotted up. Last week Assistant Secretary of Labor Jerry R. Holleman, 42, a Texas politician and former president of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., resigned after admitting that he had accepted a $1,000 gift last January from Estes "to help ends meet." Just two days before Holleman confirmed that he had asked Estes and other Texans to pick up the tab for a January dinner Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg gave for Lyndon Johnson, but said he backed off when he learned...
...break by asking a 2?-per-bu. bond-the lowest possible rate required of grain-storage operators). Said Freeman: "The Government hasn't lost a dime . . . Estes hasn't got a cent of the taxpayers' money." Of three Agriculture officials accused of accepting gifts from Billie Sol, one has resigned, one has been fired, another has denied the charges under oath. The official who approved Billie Sol's low bond has been shifted to another...
Adlai Stevenson and other Democratic notables. The Kennedy picture was inscribed: "For Billie Sol Estes, with appreciation and warm regards." Still friendlier was the inscription on the photo of Texas' liberal Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough: "To a great friend, a true Texan, a grand American-Billie Sol Estes, of Pecos. with warm appreciation...
...Hole. Billie Sol, as everybody in Pecos called him, had humble beginnings. A farmer's son. he was born and raised in the dusty hamlet of Clyde, Texas. Despite his worldly success, his huge barbecue parties, his orchid-colored Cadillac, he retained many traits from his Bible belt upbringing. He never drank, never uttered a cuss word, frequently delivered sermons as a Church of Christ lay preacher. He had a rule that, except for married couples, males and females (including children) could not swim in his pool at the same time...
...Billie Sol, as it turned out. had a couple of bad habits, too-and one evening last March, FBI agents came to his house and arrested him. Last week he was free on bail, but his empire had collapsed, and he was under indictment on charges of fraud and theft. West Texas was swarming with investigators trying to untangle a web of deceit, fraud and corruption that stretched the 1,500 taut miles to Washington. One major discovery about Billie Sol was that the guesses about the size of his fortune had been fantastically inaccurate; far from being worth...