Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clark Mollenhoff has not had to wait. He used to be the toughest-some would say most demonic-reporter in Washington. Mollenhoff helped unearth the scandals involving Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby Baker and many lesser operators. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his "persistent inquiry into labor racketeering." Now Mollenhoff is a White House deputy counsel charged with digging out Government malfeasance and corruption from the inside. He has scoured the record of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., and has flatly rejected as character assassination the conflict of interest charges Democrats have leveled against the Supreme Court nominee...
This year he again had to fight a primary. Though he can point to advances in economic development and housing programs, Stokes is handicapped by a scandal in police civil service examinations and by continual wrangling with a city council controlled by his own party. Racial animosity remains high in the blue-collar city...
...first it seemed little more than a routine civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Overnight, however, the case burgeoned into a Washington scandal involving the office of House Speaker John Mc-Cormack. The first to be tarnished was Dr. Martin Sweig, 46, McCormack's $36,000-a-year aide for the past 24 years, who was suspended by the Speaker last week pending a complete inquiry...
What will Congress do about the implications of Voloshen's presence and influence on Capitol Hill? Congress has always been reluctant to police its own ethical standards. But if congressional leaders pursue the Voloshen case energetically, they may catch a scandal of Bobby Baker proportions...
...down 176 planes over Britain, Africa, Italy and Russia and had his face badly mangled in the last of his twelve crack-ups less than a month before the German surrender. Steinhoff took over the Luftwaffe in 1966 with a mandate to "pick up the pieces" of the Starfighter scandal. He tightened organizational control, farmed out some Starfighter maintenance to private industry, which was better equipped to handle it than the Luftwaffe, and introduced more than 2,000 design and safety changes. He also urged his Starfighter pilots to "fly, fly, fly." Today, his men average...