Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Toby broadly but effectively. At his first entrance he noisily trips on the stairs coming up from the cellar (the wine-cellar, no doubt), and spends most of the play inebriated, at one point even trying to mount Maria the servant right on the kitchen table. Mary Louise Wilson is the amusing Maria...
...have nothing to hide," said Executive Vice President George M. Wilson last week. But the B.G.E.A., like many another religious organization, has been slow to divulge financial data. The reason for B.G.E.A. reluctance, Wilson explained, is fear that the "little guy," whose average $10-to-$12 gift accounts for most of the receipts, might stop giving if he thought about how many millions of dollars were flowing to Minneapolis...
...requires them to file public financial summaries with the Internal Revenue Service. (The B.G.E.A. does not file, strangely enough, because it contends that it is a church rather than an interdenominational charity.) Graham told two reporters about the fund after it started in 1970, but neither he nor Wilson mentioned it when the Observer inquired about finances...
...However, Wilson sees nothing wrong with that practice as long as the contributions the fund receives are not designated by the givers for a specific purpose...
...Wilson makes it clear that he is not overjoyed about the new openness. He thinks his organization is under scrutiny mainly because "it is the mood of the day. The critics started in on Washington and the presidency, then Congress and then the FBI. The more visible an organization becomes, the more open it is to criticism...