Word: findley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accuser in this case is another Illinois Republican, Rep. Paul Findley, who has just written a book about Lincoln's years in Congress. He discovered the details of Lincoln's padded expense account in muckraking stories written at the time by Horace ("Go West, young man!") Greeley of the New York Tribune. Findley is less than outraged by Honest Abe's exaggerations. He points out that the future President only earned $4 a day for his service in the House...
...Hearsts, and Patty's life hung in the balance," says William Randolph Hearst III, 26, her cousin and an Examiner reporter. For that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association...
...Congressmen agreed. "Henocide!" cried Illinois Representative Paul Findley. "Plucked down to bare facts, this bill is nothing more than a scheme to use the lethal authority of Government to force up the market price of eggs by killing hens." Findley was particularly piqued that the bill singles out female chickens for liquidation. "The gals of Women's Lib," he told the House, "will surely ungirdle their sharpest clawings for those who do nothing -not even harmless, painless vasectomy-to the males, the perpetrators of production. Surely they will bare their beaks and demand roostercide instead of henocide...
Busy on a story, Tim Findley did not check his mailbox at the San Francisco Chronicle until 3:30 in the afternoon. Even then, he did not bother to open a letter addressed to him from Chicago until 5. Printed neatly by hand, it warned that bombs had been planted in safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco by a radical political group calling itself "Movement in Amerika."* The letter went on to list the names of the banks as well as the numbers of the boxes; enclosed...
...Findley took the letter and the key to the police, but it was too late in the day to do anything. The bank vaults were closed by time locks for the night. Meanwhile, other newsmen had taken identical letters to the police, who waited impatiently through the night for the vaults to reopen. Next morning bomb squads in all three cities moved into the bank vaults to locate and deactivate the devices...