Wisconsin Senate OKs consumer protection bill on loans
The Wisconsin Senate approved a consumer protection bill aimed at the loan industry, with nine Republicans joining Democrats to send it to the Assembly. The measure would raise loan interest ceilings and broaden consumer protections, with an effective date delayed to March 1, 1973. Republicans split over the proposal with debates over protection for debtors versus regulatory burden.
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Madison
Wis
State Senate
Assembly
Gordon Roseleip
Patrick J. Lucey
Robert W. Warren
Wisconsin
Sen
Roger Murphy
Raukesha
Murphy
GOP
Jack Steinhilber
Oshkosh
Senate
Assembly approves budget review in Wisconsin 1972
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a budget review bill 67 to 28 with a plan to reallocate about 34 million dollars from a state surplus. The measure aims to ease property taxes while creating a citizen panel to review salaries, and maintains raises for the governor and other top executives.
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Madison, Wis
Assembly
Senate
House
Madison
Irvings Indicted In Conspiracy Related To Hughes Book
Federal and county grand juries charged Clifford Irving and his wife with conspiracy and related offenses connected to the disputed Hughes autobiography. The federal indictment cites conspiracy and mail fraud, while the county case includes grand larceny, forged instruments, and perjury in separate counts involving co defendant Richard Suskind.
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NEW York
Clifford Irving
Irving
Howard Hughes
Irvings
Richard Suskind
Suskind
U.S. Atty
Whitney North Seymour Jr
McGraw-Hill Inc
Hughes
Life Magazine
Rosemont Enterprises
Nevada
Hughs
TWA deals with bombers in extortion plot
Authorities report Trans World Airlines is negotiating with extortionists who planted bombs on two jets and demanded 2 million dollars. A prior bomb exploded in a Las Vegas cockpit, and another bomb was defused at Kennedy airport. Police say a private jet carried the ransom but no money changed hands.
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New York
Trans World Airlines
TWA
Las Vegas
Kennedy Airport
Atlanta
Charles Wyre
Los Angeles
McCarran Airport
Kennedy
Municipal Air Terminal
Kansas City
Nev
ITT accused of underwriting convention and Kleindienst probe
A White House aide quotes ITT head Harold Geneen as ordering the company to underwrite the Republican National Convention in San Diego. Brit Hume testified that ITT lobbyists met Geneen before a DOJ antitrust settlement and the Judiciary panel weighs Kleindienst’s AG nomination amid accusations of misleading Congress. The Price Commission extends the utility rate freeze by 15 days.
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Washington
Jack Anderson
Dita Beard
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
San Diego
Anderson
Brit Hume
Senate Judiciary Committee
ITT
Harold Geneen
Hume
Wisconsin Governor hints at special session on reapportionment
Gov. Patrick J. Lucey said he may call a special session to break the reapportionment deadlock after a conference committee failed to redraw the 133 Wisconsin legislative districts. Republicans accused Democrats of trying to preserve Milwaukee-area seats, arguing the plan violates the one man one vote ruling. Senator Nile Soik criticized Lucey as seeking to protect Milwaukee seats.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick J. Lucey
Wisconsin
Lucey
Milwaukee
Supreme Court
Sen
Nile Soik
Whitefish Bay
Man Found Dead in Brooklyn Residence
Green County deputies and Coroner Richard A. Wagner remained at a Brooklyn residence at noon after the Brooklyn Fire Department rescue unit responded around 10:15 a.m. A firefighter reported the man was dead at the scene.
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Green County Sheriff's Deputies
Richard A. Wagner
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Fire Department
Dane County DA seeks 10000 to fund Armstrong prosecution
The Dane County district attorney's office will ask the county for ten thousand dollars to help pay for the prosecution of Karleton Armstrong. Deputy District Attorney Robert De Chambeault said the Armstrong case is becoming an expensive item due to travel and overtime costs.
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Madison, Wis
Dane County District Attorney’s Office
Karleton Armstrong
Robert de Chambeault
County Finance Committee
Armstrong
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