TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages No Time for Petty Scandals Readers of our stories on banking in this issue will be interested in the extra evidence we have collected from around the country to show that...
...The main concern of the bankers in the recent session of the West Virginia legislature was defending the “holder-indue -course” doctrine, which the Gazette’s fine political writer, Harry Hoffman, explained, “permits a fly-by-night operator to make home improvements, then sell the contract to a bank...
...The Pain of Separation One reason the press didir’t complain more about its freeze-out from the White House may have been that reporters felt they weren’t missing much by not getting to see the Nixon men...
...An officer retiring after 5 years’ service is eligible for $15,000 severance pay...
...Maybe It’s Worth It to Get Rid of Them...
...During an interview with a reporter, Mr...
...Joel T. Broyhill received sustained applause from about 200 Washington bankers, wives, and business associates today after a speech in which he bitterly condemned news media for too extensive coverage of the largely “petty Watergate scandals...
...The Department of Transportation ias a group of employees who clip stories about transportaion issues from major newspapers...
...Be:ause its work is so impor:ant, we were glad to see :hat Metro has made life :asier for 125 of its offi:ials by paying them subiidies for parking spaces iear Metro’s downtown lffices...
...You need at least $10,000 to buy...
...He stumbles over words, and he gestures erratically...
...But when he mentions Watergate his hands come together as if in prayer...
...The clippings are then Aassified “for official use only...
...As the visitor prepares to depart, the Park Service director conse:rates the meeting by delcaring, “God bless you sir...
...Walker perspires heavily and squirms uneasily...
...I was responsible for the President’s travel arrangements,” he explains anxiously, “and the record will show that the President traveled a great deal, and so did I.” Moreover, “I’d like to make it clear that I had no knowledge of, and definitely no participation in, any aspect of the Watergate activities now under investigation...
...And in the grand tradition of Jack Valenti, former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson gave The New York Times a special glimpse of what it meant to leave the inner circle: “What 1 miss most is the opportunity to be with the President, and talk with him every day...
...stead of driving cars...
...For information * A-ESTABLISH ENGITHE EXOTIC DANCER EXonly RFQ F 336 15-7 1 -Q-17 84, S/A(P106) Watching Out for the Little Guy The National Observer recently revealed how it defines the word “small” in a story entitled “How Small Investors Cash In On Those Soaring Interest Rates”: U. S. Government securities are paying unusually high returns...
...West Virginia’s Charleston Gazette report:d last month that “a legislator who has been deeply involved in trying sincerely to bring about effective legislation for consumer protection has come to the :onclusion that the bankers rank at the very top in influencing legislators...
...Negotiations will be conducted with Raytheon Company, Norwood, MA 02062...
...Walker emphasizes that he really wasn’t around the White House much at all...
...With the Senate’s Watergate investigation being televised, with newspapers reporting disclosures almost daily, the new Park Service director knows he’s vulnerable to ruin-though he apparently has committed no indiscretion worse than serving a three-year hitch as President Nixon’s special assistant for travel...
...Nonetheless, the revelations are having their effect upon him...
...leaving the consumer to pay through the nose to the holder of the paper, even though the improvements were not made or were faulty...
...Tidbits and Outrages No Time for Petty Scandals Readers of our stories on banking in this issue will be interested in the extra evidence we have collected from around the country to show that your banker is always working for you...
...John D. Ryan, Air Forcc Chief of Staff, said he hac relieved the General as i result of the bombink raids...
...tion affecting the banking industry received free vacations to Bermuda to attend the May convention of the Maryland Bankers Association...
...Indeed, Mr...
...What You’ve Already Read Can’t Hurt You For those who fear our internal security procedures are 7ecoming too lax, Mike Causey of The Washington Post )rings new consolation...
...The Air Force origi nally announced that La velle had retired for rea sons of ‘health.’ Late...
...John Saar of The Washington Post recently pointed to new evidence of the deinocratic thrust of our armed forces...
...If somebody mentions my name, and it makes a headline, I’m dead...
...The 35-year-old political handyman feels he doesn’t deserve to die because in his White House job he really was “a very little guy, very behind-the-scenes...
...We are also indebted to Causey for discovering a new itle at the Department of Commerce: Executive Assistant o the Secretary for Interdepartmental Liaison, Immediate Iffice, Office of the Secretary...
...Only now, as more and more of the old White House insiders are speaking in public, are we getting an idea of what quotable material we’ve been denied all along...
...New Faces at the Whit1 House For those who hac hoped the substitution o Haig and Laird for Halde man a n d Ehrlichmai would bring new candor tc the White House, there is ~ discouraging word fron David Wise’s new book The Politics of Lying...
...Now he’s hunkered down at the National Park Service, bewildered and scared...
...At a recent press conference in Los Angeles, John Ehrlichman told reporters that “it was not until February of this year that we were given any reason for even the beginning fibrillation of doubt” about .John Dean’s assurances that there had been no Watergate cover-up...
...Walker says forlornly, “it’s like a growing octopus...
...Short-term Treasury bills, for instance, currently yield about 7.1 per cent...
...Douglas Watson of The Washington Post reported that the seven Maryland officials who play key roles in administering the state banking laws supporting or legisla...
...De scribing the Air Force’ cover-up of General La ve l l e ’ s unauthorizec bombings, Wise says, “Thc N i xo n Ad minis t r atioi tried to cover up the scan dal...
...Taking the Pictures Off the Wall It was just a few months ago that everyone was proclaiming his eternal loyalty to President Nixon and boastlng ofthe time they had worked on the campaign with Bob Haldeman or John Ehrlichman...
...Now we have this report from Monroe W. Karmin of The Wall Street Journal: In two short years, Ronald H. Walker rose from being an obscure West Coast salesman to a job close to the seat of national power in the White House...
...From Virginia comes another reassuring story about the intellectual and moral quality of your bankers: Hot Springs, Va., June 8. Rep...
...With so many people talking now,” Mr...
...An enlisted man can serve for 15 years and get nothing Exstic Dancer For those who think government contracting is dull business, the Commerce Business Daily offers evidence to the contrary : NEE.RING SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE HAVE HAIR PROGRAM DURING ERCISE...
...Ryan testified thai he had recommended thai Congress be told the truth but was overruled-by Defense Secretary Melvir Laird .” Driving the Point Home Washington’s “Metro” transit agency has been milding a costly subway system and urging the :ivic-minded to reduce traffic by riding buses in...
Vol. 5 • July 1973 • No. 5
