Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional page to Democratic Senate Secretary, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker was Lyndon Johnson's protege and became an important functionary. His decade of influence was an eventful one on Capitol Hill, and Baker was able to participate in legislative history while enriching himself through private business dealings. The scandal that broke in 1963 instantly converted his status from that of all-American striver to one of cuff-linked corruptor. Last week, four years after his conviction for income tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the Government and theft, he began a one-to three-year prison term. Hugh Sidey, TIME...
Unscathed. There were several brushes with scandal during his political career, usually centering on his love for horse racing, but each time Powell emerged unscathed. After a grand jury investigation into a stock purchase in a harness-racing corporation whose legislative cause he had championed, the exonerated Powell commented: "It wound up with the grand jurors wanting to know from me where they could buy racetrack stock...
Whenever the Government writes a blank check to the housing industry, some sort of scandal is likely to result. Under the Federal Housing Administration's long defunct Section 608 program, builders in the early 1950s ended the postwar shortage of rental housing by erecting half a million apartments. In the process, many builders pocketed millions of dollars of unearned profit from mortgage loans that exceeded the cost of construction. The loans were based on FHA cost estimates, and nobody had told the agency to check on whether its estimates exceeded costs actually incurred. They often did. The upshot...
Each individual should at least learn to see through some of the fraud that is passed off as science. Almost all the claims of the drug industry need to be greeted with more discriminating eyes. The scandal over cyclamates and the general confusion over poisons in foodstuffs seem to illustrate a misunderstanding of what science and technology are in the wold. The power that science has unleashed has engendered a cross-eyed belief and consequent perversion of much scientific knowledge...
...year in an already conservative budget. A selective city job freeze went into effect, and summer park programs closed a week early. There is virtually no growth in city tax revenue now, reflecting the stagnant economy. Uhlman has already weathered a frightening bombing spree and a police scandal last year, and he says: "There are days when I wonder why I couldn't have picked another time to become mayor." The budget squeeze also troubles the schools. For every child in the free-lunch program in 1969, there are now more than 50, and Superintendent Forbes Bottomly is deeply...