Word: walletful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He also attended $1,000-a-plate dinners at Washington's International Inn and Manhattan's New York Hilton, a $100-a-plate dinner in Manhattan's Americana Hotel. The five affairs stuffed the party's 1964 campaign wallet with some $2.5 million...
Targets. In 1941, Cannon became chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and in that capacity he saw himself as the guardian of the nation's wallet. "We've got to keep people from taking more and more money out of the U.S. Treasury," he stormed. "Every day they devise a thousand new ways to do it." To maintain tight control, he made himself a member of every one of his dozen or so subcommittees, so that he could attend their meetings and vote when the occasion arose. Pleas from Presidents to restore money cuts were often ignored; once Cannon...
...this year, the federal trustbusters have won twelve criminal indictments against U.S. industry for price-fixing in various fields. The number is by no means a record; 37 indictments were returned in 1962 and 17 last year. But each case seems to get closer to the consumer's wallet. Last month a federal grand jury indicted eight leading steel companies on charges of rigging prices in the steel that goes into cars, refrigerators and washing machines. Last week the trustbusters-struck hard at the belt:in the biggest indictment yet brought in the food field, they made price-fixing...
...seven turned on Corbel, a former boxer beat him to the ground, and demanded money. He threw them the total contents of his wallet (five dollars) and fled...
...government overthrows in Saigon in three months. "What you've got to learn in Viet Nam," says a U.S. Army major in the Delta, "is that the name of the game is frustration, and you simply have to live with it." Another Yank keeps a card in his wallet to pull out in moments of despair. It reads: "Patience...