Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Racketeer? The first scandal broke about a year ago when Postmaster General Azellus Denis resigned from the Cabinet after a storm in Parliament over his hiring a slew of defeated Liberal candidates as post office "consultants." That was tame com0pared with what followed. Five months ago, a young Montreal lawyer went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with a story that the executive assistant to the Minister of Immigration, two aides to Justice Minister Guy Favreau, and Pearson's own parliamentary secretary had approached him in an extradition case. The man under extradition proceedings was a Montreal racketeer wanted...
...Race Track? The latest scandal was the forced resignation two weeks ago of Pearson's Minister Without Portfolio Yvon Dupuis. The youngest (38) man in the Cabinet, Dupuis was also one of the best campaigners and was extremely well connected to Quebec party bosses. Now Le Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson...
...academy's honor code, then blew the whistle. Within days, the organizer, his sales force, and 18 other cadets-most of them football players-had been bounced from the academy. In Washington, Secretary of the Air Force Eugene Zuckert immediately ordered a complete, closed-door investigation of the scandal. As tensions rose, one Air Force official recorded a common cam pus conversation: "Are you clean?" "Yes, unless they...
...like somebody dying," murmured Seattle Lawyer Archie Greenlee. They had a right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from the academy - and before the investigation is completed, anywhere...
Without question, the Air Force scandal is something far worse than the 1951 cribbing uproar at West Point, where 90 cadets (including 43 football players) were expelled for exchanging exam questions. That involved an informal, illegal help-your-buddy system. But the ugly Air Force incident at Colorado Springs was a clear case of common, profit-motivated theft...