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...indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting Cohn on at least one count of perjury. "This is a very big disappointment," said the foreman later. "It's like being...
...Lame Duck. Before departing for Montgomery that night, Wallace promised to return to Indiana this week. He chortled: "Governor Welsh said a few weeks ago, 'Who's Wallace?' He's not saying that...
...even better in Indiana than he did in Wisconsin, where he polled 264,000 against 512,000 for Governor John Reynolds, another Johnson-minded favorite son. One reason is that anti-civil rights feeling runs high in some industrial areas of Indiana. Another is that Welsh, a lame-duck Governor who cannot succeed himself, is suffering a popularity dip because of a state sales tax he signed into law last year...
...Very, very soon in South Viet Nam you are at the end of the line. You have to make up your mind very soon, General, that you are going to command, or you are not going to command. If you are not going to command, you are a dead duck; you cannot win. If you decide you want to command and they will not let you command, get out. You are a dead duck. You cannot win. Make up your mind...
...protocol. But when William Wallace Daniel, 4, was asked by Grandfather Harry S. Truman, 79, to accompany him to a bridge dedication, William fell solemnly into step a respectful three paces behind, with all the inborn aplomb of a White House aide. After the bridge at Florida's Duck Key had been named after him, Truman met the press. Who would be the Republican presidential candidate? Harry riposted: "I don't nominate Republicans; I just beat...