Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callaway's political trouble is a result of the Ford Administration's keen -and fully warranted-post-Watergate sensitivity to voter intolerance of even the whiff of scandal. The worst that had been alleged about Callaway was that in a variety of ways he had misused his muscle as a Government bigwig to promote and enlarge the $10 million Crested Butte complex that he and his brother-in-law own. But that was enough...
Obscure Congressman. Hiss was well-launched on a brilliant career when scandal struck. He had been a student of Felix Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference that laid the foundation for the United Nations. He went to Yalta with F.D.R. in 1945, specialized in Far Eastern affairs at State, and was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when his world collapsed...
Though it is not my purpose here to dwell upon them, there were, of course, mistakes. I personally had a hand in two of the finest. One, which turned into a minor scandal last October, involved the printing of membership applications for an organization whose caucus we planned to pack. Not precisely illegal, but not the ethical pinnacle of my career either. We got caught...
...that time, the Trudeau government appeared to be involved in scandal. The first came in November, when Tory M.P. Elmer Mackay unsuccessfully petitioned Commons for a judicial inquiry into possible federal influence peddling in the granting of duty-free shop concessions at Montreal's airports. Mackay charged that Louis Giguere, a Liberal Senator and prominent party fund raiser, had made a $92,000 windfall profit from the timely purchase and sale of shares in Sky Shops Ltd., the concession in question. Mackay also charged that Health and Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde, who was Trudeau's principal secretary when...
Died. Attilio Piccioni, 83, anti-Fascist co-founder of Italy's Christian Democrat Party, who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1954 when his jazz-pianist son was falsely implicated in a scandal involving sex, narcotics and the death of a party girl, Wilma Montesi; in Rome...