Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keen interest in making money for Jimmy Hoffa. Tracing the web of Hoffa's financial dealings proved to be difficult, because he deals entirely in cash, leaving no personal-check stubs or canceled checks behind. Asked to explain this peculiarity, Hoffa bristles and replies that as a U.S. citizen he has a "right" to deal in cash if he wants...
Diario de Noticias reported that the Canadian passport U.S. Citizen Birrell had used to enter Brazil was not really false; it had just been altered to leave
Long before Club Cabazon mysteriously burned to its foundations last December, it became clear to the townfolk that the only citizen who was making any profit out of Cabazon was Mayor Tallent. An opposition group, the Civic Improvement Association, began to gather recruits. The anti-Tallent cause was helped when Riverside County deputy sheriffs raided Tallent's home, claimed they found and photographed him nude in bed with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Grove-Franken operation is that they have remained unidentified to their bosses-until this week. But the Citizen had long suspected that its own employees were involved. "I know that some of my men contribute to it," growled Citizen Editor Don E. Weaver last week. "And it's a dirty bird that fouls its own nest." For all the fact that Grove and Franken have often criticized real Citizen shortcomings, Editor Weaver may have a point...
...philippics on the tyranny of Lorenzo the Magnificent to his repertory of complaints against the church. Sensation-hungry Florentines packed in to hear his denunciations, and when friends warned him not to anger the powerful Lorenzo, Savonarola replied grimly: "Though I am here a stranger and he the highest citizen, yet I shall remain and he shall depart." In 1492 Lorenzo was dead. Echoing in the ears of the impressed Florentines was the preacher's reiterated warning: "Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter [Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth...