Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That politics suffers a similar fate from the scandal-mongering of elections is obvious. But it is also clear that most students lack the sophistication to understand that describing democracy as an organized system of corruption is a formula for dealing with politics, not a reason for ignoring...
...FARM SCANDAL. The New Frontier apparently has no more notion than the Eisenhower Administration about how to solve the farm problem. Kennedy plans to take strong executive action to disperse surplus goods to distressed areas in the U.S. and the world; but a decision on farm supports is another matter. Last week Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman held his first major conference with representatives of national farm groups, sadly watched the meeting deteriorate into bitter arguments for and against Government control of farm policy. As hubbub rose, National Farmers Union President James Patton cracked: "Agriculture is so highly organized...
...little incidents are the most disturbing, because they suggest the abuses that deep faith so blindly perpetrates. The dicta of the Puerto Rican bishops were a mere public scandal, for they didn't manage to unseat Munoz Marin, and de Gaulle's proposal to subsidize parochial schools (a sharp break with French secular tradition) is mostly fodder for hard shell baptists. But the Bakimore YMCA, which denied space for a birth control clinic because the Church threatened to boycott the United Fund Appeal, like the Santa Fe Mexican who was threatened with excommunication if her son attended a non-parochial...
Agriculture: Hike expenditures by $165 million to $5.1 billion, including $3.4 billion for price supports. Blame for the farm scandal, said Ike, can be laid to the Democratic Congress, for failing to change the "unrealistic" price-support laws...
...problem that has Jack Kennedy seriously worried is the condition of the faction-ridden, scandal-tarred Democratic Party in Massachusetts. Last year the President-elect carried his home state with ease-while Republicans won the statehouse and kept their Senate seat. Convinced that things are likely to get worse before they get better, Jack Kennedy is now thinking of Brother Bobby as the man to take charge of the housecleaning, by eventually running for Governor rather than for Jack's old Senate seat...