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...same reason for refusing to build in the St. Louis area: "We just can't afford the payoff." The payoff was to corrupt A.F.L. building-trades union bosses and business agents. The racketeers, often in league with local subcontractors, concentrated on jobs where there was a fixed completion date, held them up with featherbedding, slowdowns and jurisdictional disputes until the completion deadline got close. Then they made themselves "available" to "fix things up" for the builder-at a price. Frightened contractors told Baldwin that those who refused to go along with the racket were often slugged...
...pickpocket and a thief. That natural inference might be drawn to his detriment in the ordinary affairs of life--for instance, a bank might conclude that such a person could hardly be a good risk for employment as a teller, if he has got himself in such a fix that he cannot answer a question like that. The only place inference cannot be drawn is at a criminal trial...
...prosecutor to pin-point areas in which incriminating evidence could be found. Dean Griswold make a similar assertion with respect to the questioning of a witness about Party membership in each of a series of consecutive years. This contention presumes that the individual has been "in such a fix" that he could not safely answer all the questions, and at a time sufficiently recent to justify a reasonable belief that his testimony might furnish a basis for prosecution. In any event the argument would seem to have no application to a refusal to answer the simple first and second questions...
...Grow Troublesome. "Bucks," as Author Wilson insists on calling Buckingham, was the more striking figure of the two. Born to the purple, he was so handsome, witty and intelligent that Louis XIV was maliciously pleased to describe him as "almost,the only English gentleman he had seen." Buckingham could "fix" anything, from a political treaty to a royal date: it was he, for example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship...
...Italian government has made it clear that a favorable Trieste settlement is its price for ratification of EDC. Western military planners, attempting to fix a barrier across the girth of Europe, consider Trieste vital to the defense of Italy and southern France, for it represents the only break in the formidable chain of mountains that runs from Geneva itself to the Adriatic sea. The successful defense of this gap clearly depends on the co-operation of Yugoslav and Italian forces...