Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacobsen, an Austin, Texas, attorney who was close to Connally. The milk producers instructed Jacobsen to turn the money over to Connally, who would then distribute it to deserving congressional candidates. In his testimony to the grand jury, Jacobsen said that he offered it to Connally, but his fellow Texan refused to take it. Much like the $100,000 campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Bebe Rebozo, the cash was reputedly placed by Jacobsen in a vault in a bank-an Austin bank that happened to be controlled by Jacobsen. There it sat, unwanted and unused, he testified, from...
...special prosecutor's staff of 38 lawyers needed much reassuring. Outraged and discouraged by the firing of Archibald Cox, the attorneys were fearful that the Texan might slow down the investigation. Their anxieties were soon allayed: one of his first orders was for everyone on the staff to proceed full speed ahead in his previously assigned area of investigation...
Only three of the 21 Democrats are conservative Southerners, and none is an obstructionist reactionary. The liberals are led by tough, testy Texan Jack Brooks, 51, who came to the House at 30 as a protege of Lyndon Johnson. Wisconsin's able Robert W. Kastenmeier, 50, chairs the subcommittee dealing with civil liberties, and California's Don Edwards, 59, was once the chairman of the ultraliberal Americans for Democratic Action. The A.D.A. rated eleven of the committee's Democrats 81% or higher on their 1973 voting record...
...taking the witness stand and surrendering documents. In the end, after selling TWA stock (which cost about $90 million when he acquired it) for some $550 million, Hughes was vindicated by the Supreme Court, which overturned the lower courts' $145,448 million antitrust judgment against the eccentric Texan...
Died. Woodward Maurice ("Tex") Ritter, 67, country-and-western singing star; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Term. A deep-voiced Texan, Ritter was best known for throaty, twangy recordings of such country classics as You Are My Sunshine, Jingle, Jangle, Jingle and of the theme from the 1952 western High Noon. As a singing cowboy, Ritter also played in 70-odd western films, mostly during the '40s; later he appeared on TV's Zane Grey Theater...