Word: speakers
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...House Speaker John McCormack is known for his almost puritanical probity. He lives simply, drives a 14-year-old car, has amassed few worldly goods. Thus he sounds in character when he professes ignorance about the influence peddling that has emanated from his Capitol Hill office for years. What plagues McCormack-and threatens his winning another term as Speaker-is that the serial revelations about Martin Sweig, McCormack's now suspended aide, and Nathan Voloshen, the Speaker's longtime friend, make it increasingly incredible that McCormack could have overlooked their activities...
McCormack has attempted to pass Voloshen off as simply a personal friend with no special access to the Speaker's official or political world. Investigations by the Justice Department, the FBI, federal grand juries in New York and Baltimore and journalists have found dozens of conspiracies involving Voloshen, including attempts to get favors for convicted mobsters, to profiteer in land schemes, to get Congressmen and executive agencies to do favors for Voloshen's clients. Investigating Voloshen's activities and his association with McCormack, TIME Correspondent Sandy Smith last week reported: - Voloshen has been close to McCormack...
...real member of Speaker McCormack's family is Nephew Edward McCormack. The Speaker regards Edward almost as his own son and surely as a protegé. In 1966, Voloshen brokered political and financial labor union support for Edward McCormack's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts...
...pacemakers in commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by means of a scrupulously observed gentleman's agreement. It provides that the President of the republic-currently Charles Helou-should always be a Maronite Catholic, the Premier a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians, as are the army and the civil service. From time to time, the system has come close to collapse. Until last week, its severest test occurred in 1958, when strife between the sects led President...
Thirty-six of the prelates had been hand-picked by the Pope or were Curia members, and a majority of the others had been considered supporters of a conservative viewpoint. Yet speaker after speaker amplified Cardinal Suenens' concern. A surprisingly large number of those who spoke urged a quick and broad implementation of collegiality, or shared authority-a principle that had been enunciated by Vatican II, but never clearly spelled out. Yet Pope Paul ignored it altogether last year when he failed to consult his bishops throughout the world before issuing his controversial Humanae Vitae encyclical opposing artificial birth...