Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petty Insult. Nenni's plan infuriated the fellow travelers in his party's high command. "A scandal,'' cried one. Shouted another: "For a few corrections in the capitalist system, they are offering the breakup of the workers' movement." But Nenni's proposal carried...
...what they demanded was: take me to your fakes. The show of paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. had proved unpredictably popular, but for all the wrong reasons. Between 60 and 70 of the 187 paintings in the exhibition were under critical indictment as phony-a scandal so big as to strike at the confidence that the art market is founded...
...governor." But the erratic, wild-haired Quadros, who says that "occult forces" drove him from the presidency, did not wow the voters as he had before. Favoring a predictable politician over the unpredictable one, they gave the lead to a somewhat shopworn old figure named Adhemar de Barros, whose scandal-tainted state administration was turned out by Quadros eight years ago. A Quadros aide passed word that the ex-President was again considering a long sea voyage...
...then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive junkets and payroll padding by U.S. Congressmen. On the editorial side, Scripps-Howard's Washington-based editorialists have come out for sanity in the federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved...
...point: one of the ways in which the Administration got deeply involved in the Billie Sol Estes scandal was by tossing its grain storage contracts around in willy-nilly fashion. But as a Kansas political issue, Breeding has the best of it. After all, there are a lot more wheat growers than wheat storers. And in elections, numbers count...