Parking garage sketch outlines three story Downtown build
A sketch shows a three story parking structure under construction in the Downtown Redevelopment Area. Defco Construction Co. is erecting the building between Los Olivos on Second Street and the Chamber of Commerce building. Taliesin Associated Architects at Taliesin West designed the project.
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Defco Construction Co
Los Olivos
Second Street
Chamber of Commerce
Taliesin Associated Architects
Taliesin West
Watergate compared to Teapot Dome scandal in 1920s US politics
The piece contrasts Watergate with the Teapot Dome affair under Warren G. Harding, detailing Albert B. Fall's secret leases to Mammoth Oil and Pan American, illicit bribes, and subsequent investigations led by Senator Walsh and Owen Roberts. It notes Harding's death, the censure of Fall, and the blurry trail of campaign funds and oil profits.
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Sam Fogg
Washington
UPI
Dome
Watergate
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Harding
White House
San Francisco
Warren
Ohio
Teapot Dome
Senate Public Lands Committee
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Albert B. Fall
Wyoming
U.S. Navy
Elk Hills
Buena Vista
Calif
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Fall
New Mexico
Teapot, Dome
Mammoth Oil Co
Henry F.sinclair
Pan-American Co
Edward F. Doheny
Sinclair
Doheny
Senate
Walsh
Ned McLean
McLean
New York
Wilson unveils Socialist policy changes in Parliament
The Labour minority government in Britain announced a program including food subsidies, wealth redistribution, land for home building and higher pensions. It pledges to renegotiate Common Market terms with a referendum but avoids pledges on large scale nationalization and immediate withdrawal.
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London
UPI
Harald Wilson
Labor Party
Britain
Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Conservative ‘Party
Phoenix to pay relocation benefits for residents after July 1 1974
The Phoenix city council informally agreed to pay relocation benefits to residents displaced by city land purchases, effective for purchases after July 1 1974, but not for commercial or industrial firms. Vice Mayor Goode urged consistency with federal rules and support for residents, while Mayor Barrow and Councilwoman Hance opposed.
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Phoenix
UPI
Calvin Goode
Tim Barrow
Margaret Hance
Hance
Old Council
Japanese teen hijacker subdued after 6 hour stand
A masked 18 year old hijacked a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet with 426 aboard near Naha Okinawa. Police dressed as maintenance workers stormed the cockpit, overpowered him, and all passengers were released without injuries. One man suffered a heart attack. The hijacker demanded 55 million dollars and a list of accessories before surrendering.
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Naha
Okinawa
UPI
Japan Air Lines
Tokyo
Joel Tucker
Tucker
Japan
Far East
Boeing Aircraft Manufacturing Co
Aichi Prefecture
JAL
U.S
Toshikazu Oketani
Oketani
Ryukyu Islands
Naha Airport Administration
Sears denies fixing Vesco case with Mitchell in trial testimony
Government witness Harry L. Sears testified in the Mitchell Stans trial that he never attempted to fix the Vesco matter with John Mitchell nor asked him to. Sears, a former New Jersey Republican figure, had ties to Vesco and to Mitchell during Nixon era campaigns. The case centers on alleged efforts to impede an SEC Vesco probe in exchange for a $200,000 Nixon fund contribution.
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New York
UPI
Harry L. Sears
Robert L. Vesco
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Peter Fleming Jr
Sears
Vesco
Mr. Mitchell
Commmerce
Maurice H. Stans
Securities and Exchange Commission
New Jersey
Corporation
Stans
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Scottsdale Public Library
Archie Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Calvin Collidge
Harry M. Daugherty
Navy
Francis’ Denby
Supreme Court
Owen Roberts
Roberts
Vanderbilt Hotel
Col. B.A. Humphreys
Mexia
Continental Trading Co. Inc
Republican National Committee
Hong Kong
Pacific Ocean
Tres Dons
E. Thomas Rd
Fine Food & Drinks
Nancy
Phil Hensley
Cleveland
Frank Carrancho
Windjammer
Neptune East
Scottsdale Bridge Club
N. 73Rd Street
Scottsdale’s
Mesa
Sun City
Tucson
Yuma
N. 7th.St
Arizona
Kiro del Mar
Parisic
KINO
Ryves
Kino del Mar
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