Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never spoke, but by Herter.) On the other hand, Sparkman has been kept pretty far in the background. Do the "liberals" in the Stevenson camp really think they can kill the filibuster or legisislate FEPC with Sparksman presiding over the Senate? Is it "honest discussion" to raise such a furor over Nixon, while deliberately disregarding the alternative...
...Howard McGrath was fired as Attorney General in the furor about the corruption disclosures, although no specific irregularity has been charged against...
There was no doubt, as Nixon prepared to address the nation, that his political effectiveness, particularly as a candidate in a crusade against corruption in government, had been impaired by the furor over the fund. There was no doubt that he was in trouble because of two serious mistakes. The first was in allowing the fund to operate when there were other ways to cover his legitimate political expenses* (e.g., through publicly reported political funds, by lecture fees, or by continuing his law practice). The second mistake was in keeping the fund secret. Few professional California GOPoliticos knew...
...have the money . . . the girls can always use the money . . . Both parties are satisfied and one of them profits monetarily by the transaction. So what's wrong with that? These affairs certainly meet the test of sound economic activity in this cold, commercial world, so why all the furor...
Whether or not the oil companies had, as they stoutly denied, overcharged the Government was a matter for the law courts to eventually decide. But the Administration's strange and undignified handling of the whole cartel furor seemed to prove only that the election is getting closer every day. Said Socony-Vacuum's Board Chairman George V. Holton: "Somebody does this sort of thing every four years. We're whipping boys during an election campaign...