Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, in 1959, the payola scandal struck. Freed was indicted for accepting $30,000 in bribes from six record companies for pushing their releases. Rock 'n' roll faltered; record sales fell off 30%. Crooned Bing Crosby: "My kind of music is coming back...
...special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched for his integrity...
Against Time. Madrazo has firsthand knowledge of his party's lethargy and corruption. In 1952, when the government was racked by a scandal over P.R.I. officials who demanded payoffs from Mexican braceros in return for work permits, Bureaucrat Madrazo-as P.R.I. leaders privately admit today -was framed and packed off to jail for eight months. Next week Madrazo will open a national convention at which delegates representing the P.R.I.'s 6,300,000-man membership will be invited to draw up a long-term program of social and political reform. "Politics," warns Madrazo, "is a game against time...
Homosexuals infiltrate Her Majesty's Exchequer. Heterosexual backbenchers make hay with the P.M.'s daughter. The P.M.'s wife dosses down with her husband's brother. Ruthless press lords sow scandal and reap circulation. Ministers waffle and ministries totter, but merry England somehow muddles through and the parliamentary wits go right on making parliamentary witticisms: "The only advantage of being in the Lords is that you lose your constituents." In this as in his previous novels (Who Goes Home, The Minister), Maurice Edelman, Member of Parliament for North Coventry, pretends to tell the reader what actually...
...picnic contentedly with their fully dressed and well-known men about Paris, particularly attracted him. Rivers decided to achieve the same shock value; he persuaded his elderly mother-in-law, Berdie, to pose for 20 exacting, and mostly nude, examinations of anatomy. The result was almost as great a scandal as Washington...