Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their cash into the stock of a fundraising corporation called GeoTek, of which Chandler is a director. For his services, Chandler in 1965 collected $109,200 in cash "finder's fees," which he returned to a Burke company this year after the first evidence surfaced of a possible scandal. The list of prominent investors includes Simon Ramo, a director of the Times parent company and a founder of the huge electronics-aerospace firm TRW Inc., who also lent his name as a GeoTek director. Hollywood celebs who took fliers on Burke's oil funds include Kirk Douglas, Natalie...
...Exchequer. Powell was excluded from the Cabinet because of his racist views. Last week Maudling, 55, certainly one of the ablest members of the 1950 class, fell. He resigned abruptly as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, the innocent if disappointingly naive victim of a private business scandal...
...Albion's reprobation. Three of them were busted, haled into court and subjected to a campaign of vilification from the English right-wing press. The Stones became the scapegoats of England's drug problem, and their legal vicissitudes provided London with the juiciest gossip since the Profumo scandal...
...would be compelled to name before a grand jury every source--many of whom would be incriminated--for its series detailing graft in the New York City construction business totalling over $25 million annually. The City of New York either could not, or did not bother to, uncover the scandal. The Times did. But had those men who supplied The Times its information known they would have no protection before a grand jury should The Times's reporter be called to testify, they never would have spoken up. The story never would have been written...
...when the five arrested men were identified. One was in the pay of Mitchell's committee; several had past links to the CIA. Beyond that, shadowy trails reached close enough to the White House, as one Republican admitted privately, to shake the G.O.P. with fears that another ITT scandal-or worse-was in the making...