Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election as Governor of Minnesota, J.F.K. gave him the questionable consolation of becoming Secretary of Agriculture. In the years since, the durable Freeman has been impaled repeatedly, but never fatally, on the prongs of one sharp controversy after another: crop controls, immense commodity surpluses, the Billie Sol Estes scandal, falling farm income, rising food prices. This week, when Freeman testifies before poverty subcommittees of both the House and the Senate, he will be lucky if he can avoid yet another pitched battle...
...destroying at least 3,000 ballots cast for his opponent. Another D.R.P. winner was charged with buying votes. Park booted both from the party, and ordered his D.R.P. leaders to take stern action against all other members "who had disgraced the party by being involved in the election scandal...
...concealed recording device authorized under New York's nine-year-old eavesdrop law had overheard Ralph Berger discussing his part in a bribery scandal that rocked the state's liquor authority four years ago. The question was whether or not the eavesdrop evidence was admissible against him. When the dissents and assents were sorted out last week, Berger was a free man and New York's law was knocked down...
...Monro gave in. He may have been leery of the Boston papers turning his letter into another blow-up like the 1963 sex scandal. But he wrote it anyway, in no uncertain terms (Though perhaps, as some have said with some uncertain logic. Why say drugs are a "waste of time"? Isn't drinking or partying a "waste of time" too?). "It was pure Monro," one Administration official said...
...college resident, girls in off-campus houses far from the dining halls appealed to her to give them a breakfast subsidy and she agreed. But, the following fall, Mrs. Bunting seemed to have reversed her decision. As the strikers have said, "this announcement took the proportions of a small scandal in the eyes of the girls who had moved off-campus to save money and avoid ... eating breakfast in the large dormitory dining rooms." Meetings with Mrs. Bunting followed; the CRIMSON denounced her; and finally she said the College could afford a partial rebate, but only to girls...