Butler's investigation was tainted by the rumor that Butler paid Wendell $ 100, 000 to testify during the investigation, in order to expose the Astor House acquittal committee.

During the Nixon administration he headed the committee to research a conversion to paid / volunteer armed force.

Like most non-media science fiction conventions, all Worldcons are run entirely by volunteers, with no paid staff ; senior committee members devote hundreds of hours ( not to mention thousands of dollars in travel expenses in some cases ) in preparation for a particular convention.

Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.

Schreiber told the committee he paid $ 30, 000 in cash to Charest's brother to help fund the current Prime Minister's 1993 leadership bid for the federal Progressive Conservative party.

According to the act, administration of the temple was vested to a committee of seven members and overseen by a paid commissioner as appointed by the Madras Government.

A feature of housing associations is that, although the larger housing associations usually have paid staff, a committee or board of management made up of volunteers has overall responsibility for the work of the organisation.

The Standing Committee also appoints several positions in the society including the Secretary, Head of Event Management, Head of Publicity and Press Officer, some of whom are entitled to attend the committee without voting rights, along with the most senior paid employee, the Bursar.

* March 24-Myriam Bédard testifies to a committee investigating the sponsorship scandal that she heard Jacques Villeneuve was paid millions of dollars to wear a Canadian flag on his racing suit ; Villeneuve calls this allegation " ludicrous ".

Between 2001 and 2005 inclusive, Hayworth's wife Mary was legally paid $ 20, 400 per year by TEAM PAC, Hayworth's leadership political action committee.

In 2006, Brown's campaign committee paid her daughter's husband, Tyree Fields, $ 5, 500 for political consulting work.

He decided to volunteer after the 1951 season and, at the same time, take advantage of a new Yorkshire committee ruling that any capped players who were called up would be paid £ 5 a week, which was a good wage at the time.

As chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, Lang insisted that Tony Blair's paid work for UI Energy Corporation, an oil firm with interests in Iraq, just 14 months after leaving office should be made public following a period when the committee agreed to keep it confidential due to " market sensitivity ".

He also was appointed to some paid committee clerkships.

Schools were managed by appointing a committee who then employed a teacher and paid their salary.

Today he is the co-founder, chair, and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies in Vancouver, a consulting firm that provides paid public relations efforts, lectures, lobbying, opinions and committee participation to government and industry on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues.

The committee, chaired by Tsongas, proposed a $ 56. 8 million, 16, 000 seat arena that would be paid for by tax-exempt bonds floated by an Arena Authority and by raising the commonwealth's hotel tax from 5. 7 % to 8 %.

In 1972, Barker was one of the five burglars paid by the Committee to Re-elect the President ( CREEP ), Nixon's re-election campaign fundraising committee, for a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and subsequently was convicted in the Watergate scandal.

Pressure was then put on Huhne to avoid an action for libel: and at a late-night meeting in the Isis office, he signed an agreement which stipulated that, as well as the publication of an apology, and retraction of the allegations, all political copy to be published in the magazine for the next three years, had first to be vetted by an editorial committee, made up of prominent members of the Hard Left in Oxford at that time, thus effectively putting paid to the editorial independence of Isis for the duration of the agreement.

She earned $ 54, 659 as a fundraiser for Weldon ’ s campaign committee, and was paid at least $ 90, 000 by CURT PAC for fundraising and reimbursements for travel, lodging and office supplies.

By early January 2006, the total legal expenses paid by Ney's political campaign committee had risen to $ 232, 381.

Both sides fought for their cause vigorously, but the committee of the House of Lords which heard the cases ruled in favour of the Corporation, who paid the Water Company £ 2, 092, 014 for all of their assets, and took over responsibility for water supply.

Ambrose told a parliamentary committee that Canada had paid its debts under the Kyoto Protocol only to have an Environment Canada official point out that the bill was still unpaid.

He wrote a letter to the court of directors on 18 November, 1783 containing a long resume of his activities in the Company's service and made an extraordinary request of being appointed as a member of the committee of Revenue which was the highest paid body in Calcutta.

Opposition MP Péter Szijjártó, as the head of a committee set up to investigate the origins of Gyurcsány's wealth, stated in his report that one of Gyurcsány's companies leased the former vacation site of the Hungarian government in Balatonőszöd and rented the site back to a state-owned company so that the rent paid by the government covered exactly the leasing fee during the first two and a half years of the ten-year lease term ( 1994 – 2004 ).

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

Hackett, who would become a member of the football rules committee in December 1907 and officiated games into the 1930s, was quoted the next day in Ed Wray's Post-Dispatch article: " It was the most perfect exhibition ... of the new rules ... that I have seen all season and much better than that of Yale and Harvard.

# If a project's spending becomes too much for a committee to continue funding, it must take the issue to the Project Committee.

Generally known as the " Brownell Committee Report ," after committee chairman Herbert Brownell, it surveyed the history of U. S. communications intelligence activities and suggested the need for a much greater degree of coordination and direction at the national level.

This wasn't so much a formal committee as a loose association of researchers interested in the ARPANET project.

They also stressed that the TWG had given too much credence to the chemistry experiments performed by the Russians and accused the TWG of not having appropriately qualified personnel on the committee.

The committee submitted its draft within a mere 24 hours, leading historians to speculate that Childress had written much of it before his arrival at the Convention.

At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee ( See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee ) that acts as the hub for much fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.

Delegates called for better-known speakers, such as Altgeld or Bryan, but were granted neither then ; the Illinois governor declined, and the Nebraskan, once seated, spent much of his time away from the convention floor at the platform committee meeting at the Palmer House.

The Polanyi Center was established without much publicity in October 1999, initially consisting of two people – Dembski and a like-minded colleague, Bruce L. Gordon, who were hired directly by Sloan without going through the usual channels of a search committee and departmental consultation.

This led to much political fighting within the committee, and frequent releases of revisions of the CORBA standard that were impossible to use without proprietary extensions.

Douglas-Home's advice to the MCC committee not to press the South Africans for advance assurances on D ' Oliveira's acceptability, and his optimistic assurances that all would be well, became a matter of much criticism from a group of MCC members led by the Rev David Sheppard.

Taking a deep interest in education, he regularly attended Workers ' Education Association ( WEA ) classes and Cooperative Party educational programmes ( much later, in 1970, he was elected a member of the regional committee of the Cooperative Retail Services in Barnsley and a delegate to its national conference.

During the Legislative Assembly, Brissot's knowledge of foreign affairs enabled him as member of the diplomatic committee to control much of France's foreign policy during this time.

The committee as much as possible tried to make attacks on Fish appear to originate from his district though historical documents indicate most attacks originated outside of his district.

There was much discussion about the names adopted for most of the colleges with the following alternative names all in consideration at one point or another: for Eliot: Caxton, after William Caxton ; for Keynes: Richborough, a town in Kent ; Anselm, a former Archbishop of Canterbury ; and for Darwin: Anselm ( again ); Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister ; Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop ( this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the Senate ); Conrad ; Elgar, after Edward Elgar ; Maitland ; Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe ; Russell, after Bertrand Russell ( this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council ); Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and Tyler Hill on which the campus stands.

The committee shed much light on the operations and finances of Bell, but Mulock was replaced when it became apparent that he was likely to recommend the telephone service be a government owned utility.

The national committee of REACT UK was beset by scandals and arguments from about 1986, first the National Communications secretary was arrested and charged with financial irregularities with regards to receipts from PMR licences, then following much in-fighting in the national committee REACT UK members decided to split.

The committee expressed solid support for effective unification, but stated that " there is such a thing as seeking too much unification too fast " and observed that " there has been a Navy reluctance in the interservice marriage, an over-ardent Army, a somewhat exuberant Air Force.

The rural committee was politically significant until the establishment of a District Council and Regional Council ( now-abolished ), and even less significant since the urban population grew much larger than the rural population.

He was president of the Whitworth Institute from 1890 to 1895 and was much interested in the medical and other charities of Manchester, especially the Cancer Pavilion and Home, of whose committee he was chairman from 1890 to 1893, and which later became the Christie Hospital.

The official recommendation of the finance committee was much harder for his opponents to fight than his individual claims in Cabinet would be.