Word: payola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the Italian press remained a secret locked in Mattei's mind-and in his office safe. Without doubt, it was plenty. Before his death, the industrial swashbuckler told a visiting journalist: "That safe contains every one," meaning the long list of newspapers on Italy's top payola list...
...penny ante" stuff. Then he took off on a world tour. Then he came back, post haste, as the scandals grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth tearfully-and. so far. successfully-argued against a grand jury investigation...
...Puritan, which finds the economy of mass affluence "irredeemably unregenerate, lurching wastefully and precariously along, propped up only by armaments, tail-fins and payola...
...Payola & Whisky. Eli G. Travis, a free-spending contractor, admitted that he had lavished a small fortune on friendly city officials who helped him to get contracts and did not inspect his work too closely. On one big job-$1,000,000 worth of repairs for an elevated transit line-city officials claim that he successfully swindled the public out of $800,000. In his various deals with city officials, said Travis, he had "paid out at least $75,000 in payola." Travis testified that the chief of the Division of Architecture and Engineering and a former secretary had received...
...graduation from high school, and assigned to the 93rd Air Depot Group in Alaska, Private Mort Sahl grew a beard and refused to wear a cap. He edited the post newspaper Poop from the Group, won 83 straight days of K.P. for his editorials discussing various types of military payola...