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...dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...
White House spokesmen deny such claims. "No one really knows what's going to happen," says one administration lobbyist. "The mood out there is nothing like what was going on in Vietnam." Mills says that while the administration has been downplaying the possibilities of noncompliance, "they have not produced anything to support their case...
...have promised to barricade the roads leading north. Analysts point out that the administration has not made careful plans in case of massive non-compliance. The Justice Department is not equipped to catch up with large numbers of non-registrants. Even if it did find all the offenders, one lobbyist points out, the sudden barrage of 200,000 felony cases would saturate the nation's courts...
...propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist, emerges with an opposite view, "I reached the never-to-be-reversed conviction that Uncle Sam's taxing authority utilized to balance our economy by curtailing greed and dishonesty and developing social benefits and policies...was the only means which could effectively reverse the Depression and permanently carry forward the just...
...force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small suppliers. "This is not just a Mom and Pop syndrome, but a lot of retailers, wholesalers and small manufacturers," says James ("Mike") McKevitt, a former Congressman who has become a powerful Washington lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business...