Word: writes
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...Legislative Activities Disclosure Act" that would require professional lobbyists to file with the Comptroller General reports on receipts and expenditures, and to name employees paid $300 or more. Reports would also be demanded of persons starting major write-your-Congressman campaigns and from those spending $50,000 or more in any twelve months for publicity aimed substantially at influencing legislation. Maximum penalty for failure to file reports: a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. Maximum punishment for false statements: a $10,000 fine and five years' imprisonment...
...fund commissioned Commonweal Executive Editor John Cogley to write a report on blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, the whole study appeared to be so opinionated, even to objective critics, that it lost much of the impact it might have had with the general public. On the other hand, the fund-supported Bibliography of the Communist Problem in the United States, compiled by Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under...
When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled...
After Gray claimed executive privilege, refusing to say whether the White House influenced him in giving Idaho Power what amounts to an interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did not need the tax break. While Seaton conceded that Gray's action was legally correct, "I reiterate that I did recommend against issuance of the certificates and would do so again...
Federal Power Commission Chairman Jerome Kuykendall also sounded unhappy about the write-off. He said that FPC licensed the dams "on the premise that financing was going to be conventional.'' Though FPC knew that Idaho Power had applied for rapid amortization four years ago, it accepted the company's statement that there was "faint" chance of getting it, even defended the license in court on the ground that no Government money was involved. Embarrassed, Kuykendall admitted that "we made a mistake." It was a sizable...