Word: matz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many businessmen take that as a sign of presidential indecision. Actually, the principal reason for the delay is that the Administration wants to get the energy fight out of the way first. In any case, it has inspired some wild-and false-stories in executive suites. Says J. Edwin Matz, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.: "It's rumored that the tax bill has things in it so horrendous you can't believe...
Businessmen, of course, do not judge Carter solely on economic issues; like other citizens, they are still trying to make sense of the President's personality. Many have concluded that Carter is a headstrong man who cannot believe he is ever wrong. Says Matz of John Hancock: "I think that it has become clear that he brings to the job his own values as a Georgia-born and -bred peanut farmer and he does not have much use for other people's values. He operates less on consensus than other Presidents have...
...supported by a host of religious and foundation sources. Pollack's work has won him respect from supporters and opponents alike. Justice Department Attorney Mack Norton, who has faced him in court and lost, says, "With Ron, we have to work a little harder." Adds Marshall Matz, general counsel of the Senate Nutrition Committee, "He argues congressional intent better than anyone else I've seen...
...mortgage banker," who also served as a prominent Agnew fund raiser. They testified that they cooperated with Agnew in a systematic scheme to shake down engineers and road-building contractors in return for favored treatment in contract awards. The other two witnesses were Contractors Allen Green, 51, and Lester Matz, 40, who admitted that they personally delivered such illegal payments to Agnew and his intermediaries...
...chairman of the state's road commission, a job bestowed on him by Agnew. Now Wolff's firm, which he has headed since 1971, is one of eight contractors that have been named as suppliers of the illegal funds in the Anderson indictment. Another of the companies, Matz, Childs & Associates, is partly owned by Lester Matz, one of Agnew's other principal accusers...