Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original Willard, which opened in 1847 within two blocks of the White House. Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant had a special chair in the lobby, where he used to sit and smoke for hours while scandal crackled around his administration...
...disagree with the man often take a perverse pride in their battle-scarred mayor. So it is widely assumed that Daley will triumph in the primary as well as in the general election in April, where, so far, no substantial Republican opposition has been found for him. Though no scandal has touched Daley personally, questions have been raised in the press about the propriety of his secret ownership with his wife of a real estate holding company that made purchases of vacant lots in a city auction. He has freely acknowledged influencing the placement of millions of dollars worth...
Reports that the once dignified, upright Mills, married to his wife Polly for 40 years, was drinking heavily and carousing in Washington nightspots had been circulating for months. The rumors became public scandal after the Tidal Basin incident of last October, when Mills' car was stopped late at night by Washington police. The car contained five passengers, including Mills and Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a frequent companion of his in the past year, who worked as a striptease dancer at a Washington nightclub under the name of Fanne Fox. Fanne leaped from the car, ran toward a small estuary...
...they summed up a historic "memorandum opinion and order," which Sirica then passed out to the attorneys in the Watergate cover-up trial. The ruling meant that in all probability former President Richard Nixon may never have to face public questioning under oath about his role in the scandal...
...representative of a banking consortium, and bidding high on blue chip stocks, Whitney earned credit for temporarily stemming the 1929 crash. Elected president of the New York Stock Exchange, he lived regally, took to embezzling, and was convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1938 in the scandal of the decade...