Word: allighan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Gunn, circulation started up and he kept it climbing. He also kept the paper in plenty of hot water. When Parliament launched an investigation in 1947 into charges by M.P. Garry Allighan that certain M.P.s were selling parliamentary secrets to the press (TIME, Aug.11, Nov. 10, 1947), it turned out in the end that Allighan was the secret-peddler-and that Gunn's paper was paying him for the news beats. Allighan was ousted from Parliament while the British press frowned on Gunn. The next year, the Standard broke the release date on a poll of British doctors...