Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Mine Workers' newly elected president, Arnold Miller, has taken office in a union wracked by scandal but vows to "get tough with the operators until they scream." Miller's tough approach consists of demands for a 20 per cent wage hike, higher safety standards and a rise in the ante contributed by mine operators to the Union pension fund from $.80 to $2.40 per ton of coal. These benefits would increase the industry's manpower costs by only 50 per cent, while coal prices have doubled in the last four years. Miller is threatening the coal industry with...
...Rockefeller's closest political associates, Morhouse had served for eight years as the unsalaried New York Republican Party Chairman. In 1960 he borrowed $100,000 from Rockefeller to acquire commercial real estate on Long Island. Six years later, Morhouse was convicted of bribery in a liquor-license scandal. Rockefeller commuted the sentence for Morhouse, then ill of cancer, in 1970. By then the loan had been reduced to $86,313, which Rockefeller canceled. Senate Rules Committee Chairman Howard Cannon, a Democrat, said that he was bothered by such a gift to "a convicted felon...
There were no arrests, but the tawdry scandal quickly became the talk of Washington, damaging a distinguished career and formerly impeccable reputation. The man was readily identified as Wilbur Daigh Mills, 65, the 18-term Democrat from Arkansas who, as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is one of Congress's most influential barons. The woman was soon found to be Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a bosomy stripper who used to style herself "Fanne Foxe, the Argentine Firecracker." Now that the firecracker has exploded in Mills' face, he just might lose his seat in Congress and along with...
...finance his campaign, he depends upon contributions, almost all of which he raises without the help of his father. Total tab for the primary and main race: $2.5 million. No fewer than four of his aides carefully check every donation to make sure it carries no stain of scandal...
...fantasy Washington after dark. Every night is Halloween, and playtime tricks and treats are almost as bizarre. But Watergate has rendered The Alchemist mysteriously reasonable, and, in the post-Nixon years, this strange novel seems just the sort of writing you'd expect from Jack Anderson's top aide--scandal-ridden, eerie, and oddly credible...