Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph Salerno, co-author of an upcoming book on the Mob, The Crime Confederation, estimates that the votes of about 25 members of Congress can be delivered by mob pressure. New Jersey Congressman Cornelius Gallagher was an associate of Joe Zicarelli, a Cosa Nostra power in New Jersey. Zicarelli's command over Gallagher was strong enough, in fact, to bring Gallagher, whom Zicarelli calls "my friend the Congressman," off the floor of the House of Representatives to accept Zicarelli's telephone calls. Although Gallagher has denied the allegation with varying degrees of indignation, he has never bothered to sue LIFE...
...some influential fans rooting for her. Her attorney, Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi, plans to press legal action. Her case has also caught the attention of New York Congressman Samuel Stratton, who said that Piton's abrogation of Mrs. Gera's contract "strikes me as a clear-cut violation of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex." The New York State Human Rights Division will hold a hearing on the dispute next month...
...busy years of operation, ABC helped to organize hundreds of small foundations, raking in at least $1,000,000 in fees. Texas' Democratic Congressman Wright Patman deplored ABC's tactics. "If this sort of thing is carried to its logical conclusion," Patman complained during congressional hearings (TIME, Jan. 5, 1968), "there would be nobody left to pay taxes...
Married. Robert Taft Jr., 52, grandson of former President William Howard Taft, son of the late Senator Robert A. Taft and himself an Ohio Congressman; and Katharine Perry, 48, a widow and longtime friend; he for the second time, she for the third; in Indian Hill, Ohio...
...five months after becoming its head tended to confirm an impression in Washington that he is not overenthusiastic about his current post. He succeeded Manuel Cohen, a whirlwind policymaker who had greatly speeded the pace and expanded the variety of SEC regulatory activities. "Judge" Budge, a former Idaho Republican Congressman and state district judge who served as one of the SEC commissioners for more than four years, is quite different. He is likely to put off a study of an important question for a month or so until an SEC aide returns from vacation. In making policy, he allows securities...