Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General McCormack's Irish eyes were not smiling yesterday afternoon as reporters besieged him for a statement on the growing Boston Common garage scandal. Six men had been indicted and he promised to try the case before leaving his present office, but then he asked into the phone: "You want me to say it's fine?...that justice has been served? Well, you can't gloat because six poor souls find themselves in a mess...
Spadeful by spadeful, diggers flung earth up from the grave of Henry Marshall, the Texas-based U.S. Department of Agriculture official who first started investigating the Billie Sol Estes scandal. Marshall had been declared a suicide, despite evidence that made suicide all but incredible. Now, with the Estes case bursting all over the horizon, he was being exhumed for an autopsy by a five-expert team headed by Houston Pathologist Joseph A. Jachimczyk. The team's finding: "From the reasonable medical probabilities, it was homicide." This was perhaps the understatement of the year. Marshall, 51, was the Agriculture official...
Down in Pecos, Texas, Federal Receiver Harry Moore, presiding over the ruins of the Estes empire, refused to let newsmen even peek at the "financial journal" in which Billie Sol had recorded his receipts and expenditures over the years. Until the full record was open to scrutiny, the Estes scandal was the hottest thing around...
...sheer gaudiness, the Estes mess dramatizes the farm scandal more vividly than ever before. If that dramatization were to result in something really being done about the farm fiasco, who knows but that the U.S. might even owe a vote of thanks to none other than Billie Sol Estes...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O., who got to know Estes well in the liberal faction of the Texas Democratic Party. Holleman's name first broke into the Estes scandal when it got out that Holleman had asked Estes and other Texans to ante up for a big dinner party given by Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last January for Lyndon Johnson. Holleman admitted it, but said that he had not consulted Goldberg in advance. Goldberg offered to produce canceled checks to prove that he had paid the bills himself, and the tremor passed away...