Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorce Himself from Scandal...
Agnew's surprise statement, which came during a question-answer period with members of the Harvard Republican Club, followed reports that Agnew's aides had told the Vice President to divorce himself from the bugging scandal...
Agnew said that it is still too early to evaluate the political effects of the Watergate scandal. If there are investigations and legal actions in progress at the time of the 1974 elections the Republican Party could be seriously affected, he added...
While New Jersey leads the nation in discovered political corruption, scandal after scandal is emerging in many other areas as the nation conducts what appears to be an unprecedented political housecleaning. Corruption is not necessarily on the rise in the U.S., but the prosecution...
Chicago's newspapers last week were reveling in the juiciest of exposes. Broken originally by the Sun-Times and then bannered by its competitors as well, the scandal starred Alderman Thomas E. Keane, chairman of the city council's powerful finance committee and friend of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The story had all the ingredients of classic muckraking: secret land trusts, gigantic tax breaks and windfall profits from sales of choice public land. As the inquiries broadened, other city leaders were implicated. The series−five months in the making−was an example of investigative journalism...