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...just a terrible thing that the directors and the outside auditors could have let a thing like this happen," says Velma Morrison, 74, the widow of company founder Harry Morrison and a director herself until 1990. "You wonder where they were, what they were doing that they didn't know what the hell was going...
Agee partisans suggest that Velma Morrison, angered by Agee's curtailment of her perquisites after her departure from the board, launched a vendetta against him by rallying disaffected members of the corporate community and turning Clark and other directors against the chairman. Clark began heeding the advice of the self-styled "Committee for Excellence," which sent directors an anonymous letter in November complaining about Agee's opulent life-style and accusing him of selling off company assets to inflate corporate profits. Agee would later complain to friends, "Bill Clark made Velma a hero; he provided a forum for my detractors...
...Jones). If she can just convince her dim-witted husband Amos (Tym Tombar) to raise the five-thousand dollars necessary to hire slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Todd Forman), Roxie may escape with her life. But she's got competition for newspaper headlines and public sympathy from equally celebrated murderess Velma Kelly (Vonnie Roemer). Which one will get the not-guilty verdict first...
...goes. Once again, a capital case and a person's fate will be determined by a politician with a partisan agenda. In 1984 North Carolina Governor James Hunt was waging a fierce battle for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jesse Helms. Meanwhile, another political battle was raging. Velma Barfield, a matronly grandmother convicted of murdering her fiance while under the influence of drugs, was scheduled to be executed around election time. Barfield had won the sympathies of religious and political leaders all over the world because of the circumstances of the crime and her conduct as a prisoner. Despite...
Transplanted Americans can be unwitting victims of the roller-coaster Mexican economy. Velma Dempsey, who has lived in Chapala for 17 years, recalls visiting a bank in 1982 to transfer her life savings from the U.S. Perturbed by the slow-moving line, she went home, planning to return the next day. Overnight, the government expropriated all dollar savings, compensating depositors with pesos. Sighs Dempsey: "I was never so grateful for inefficiency...