Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ardent advocate of the strongest possible federal open-housing plan, he promised that if Congress failed to pass a tough bill, he would see to it that an unequivocal open-housing code was adopted by the Maryland legislature. State Attorney General Thomas B. Finan, 52, a member of the scandal-tainted administration of outgoing Governor J. Millard Tawes, also supported open-housing legislation...
...years of losses. He invested heavily in automation to increase the speed and accuracy of transactions, helped persuade listed companies to release more informative reports to shareholders, and forced companies to make every common stock a voting stock. When Ira Haupt & Co. went bankrupt in a 1963 salad-oil scandal, Funston prevented a crisis of confidence by inducing other member firms to supply $9.5 million to pay off Haupt's customers...
Yorty has run a scandal-free administration. His appointments, including 16 minority members (20% of all city employees are now Negro) to high-level posts, have been unassailable. He has attracted new industry to Los Angeles, engaged aerospace companies to help modernize police and sanitation operations, two weeks ago pushed through the city council his plan for a city-sponsored downtown convention center that could make Los Angeles a convention headquarters rivaling Chicago and New York. When the cause has moved him, he has also gone beyond his expressly constituted authority with noteworthy results. At Yorty's prodding...
...Westinghouse is scheduled to go along on the first U.S. mission to the moon and telecast the trip live. Three times in the past five years enterprising leader writers have won Pulitzer Prizes for such stories as the expose of the commodity market's 1964 salad-oil scandal...
...from New York in 1899, she and her brother haunted the Louvre, particularly its Greek sculpture collection, where Isadora sought models for her movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern movement of interpretive dancing...