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Last week, after a complex trial in Baltimore that lasted 28 days, Congressman Dowdy, 59, stood convicted of bribery, conspiracy and perjury. The charges grew out of his dealings with Nathan Cohen, whose now-defunct construction firm had been accused of the kinds of violations that Dowdy's committee was ostensibly attacking. Dowdy, a parochial politician whose strength stems from his attention to voter complaints and requests,* thus became the 15th sitting Congressman convicted of crimes in this century. The most recent was the 1956 income-tax-evasion conviction of Massachusetts Democrat Thomas J. Lane...
Isaacs referred to a paragraph in Thursday morning's issue of the Globe which attributed to Kilbridge a statement that "with the knowledge and consent of former President Nathan M. Pusey. (Kilbridge had) tried to 'wrest control' of the (Planning) Department from the three professors, who among them had held the chairmanship for 17 years, and to restore the authority of the Planning faculty as a whole...
...takeover through a series of suits and appeals. In late April, 1971, WHDH filed charges with the FCC accusing BBI of fraud, misrepresentation, and concealment. Two months ago, following information unearthed by a team of Herald Traveler reporters, the Security and Exchange Commission brought a civil suit against Nathan David, executive vice president of BBI, on charges of selling unregistered stock...
Strangely enough, the impassioned ex-marine turns out to be a historian. His observations on American life cloak themselves in historical allusion. "Dan Ellsberg--I'd put him right in there with Nathan Hale 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country' and Patrick Henry--'Give me liberty or give me death'--to me he's a patriot." On Eugene McCarthy--"It's the same problem as Sam Adams. Does the great rebel make a great leader?" and on the Pentagon Paper investigation: "I'll tell you where I'd draw the line...
...NATHAN SCHUR...