Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...services? Had he ever taken payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with two teen-aged girls at once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink, but it's here and I didn't start it." Once, he recalled nostalgically, "a man said to me, 'If somebody sent you a Cadillac, would you send it back?' I said...
...question to get out of the isolation booth. Item: Van Doren testified that he was making a clean breast of the whole sordid story for the benefit of his "millions" of friends-and particularly one unnamed woman whose letter had moved him. In fact, he was cornered by a subpoena from a congressional committee. Furthermore, the evidence of fraud was overwhelming, and Van Doren had already admitted that he had perjured himself in his testimony before the grand jury in New York...
...word of the producers that no one else had seen them. But the implications of the quiz scandals last week went far beyond the guilt or innocence of any individual show or contestant, including Charles Van Doren (who reappeared after a long, lost weekend in New England, accepted a subpoena to testify when the Washington hearings resume Nov. 2). Growing recognition of the networks' irresponsibility (notably their willingness to let packagers control much of their entertainment fare) put in question the ethics of the television industry in general. For the first time, the U.S. was forced to think about...
...that the big quiz shows have been found wanting and the big quizmasters have found subpoena servers waiting, neither the clerk with the photographic memory nor the student with the encyclopedic mind has much of a chance to turn a fast TV dollar. Almost the only quizzes left are the small-payoff contests that the trade calls "peanut" shows. But this week, after four months on the air, Air Force Lieut. James Astrue will have proved that, given time, tenacity, and a modest amount of information, a man can still amass an astonishing amount of peanuts...
...Education, technical guidance, limited subsidies, and other aid for schools wrestling with integration problems. ¶ Authorize federal operation of integrated schools for servicemen's children when legal wrangling over segregation closes any schools in areas heavily populated by service people. ¶ Grant the Attorney General power to subpoena records for any election involving federal officeholders; require all state and local officials to keep such records for three years. ¶ Set federal penalties (five years, $5,000) for flight across state lines from any state's investigation of school or church bombing. ¶ Extend the life of the late...