Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Ickes resigned. In a 3,000-word statement he charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...
...take-over was breathless. For decades Bonfils & Tammen stirred up a brand of journalistic dust in Denver's rarefied air which made Hearst look stuffy. They raked the town for every bit of scandal, labeled their sheet "Your Big Brother, champion of every good, pure, noble, holy and righteous cause." Sample causes: crusades against Governors, mudslinging matches with Senators, bullyragging attacks on advertisers, lavish parties for children, sick dogs and horses...
...charged - but never proved in court - that Bonfils took $250,000 from Oilman Harry F. Sinclair to keep quiet about the Teapot Dome scandal, but such hush money would have been mere pin money to him. Before he died in 1933 (nine years after Tammen's death), he boasted that his enterprises, which ranged from mining schemes to a burlesque house, had brought him $60 million...
LIFE'S scoop on Churchill's secret war speeches caused a sensation in London. It was a scandal, huffed a sizable section of the London press. Were the words of a Prime Minister his own, or the property of the state? Cried the London Star: "Such a document [the speech explaining Singapore's fall] is historic. It will long be counted part of the very fabric and structure of our greatness. . . . Once the ban on publication had been lifted, it should have been made a state paper...
...inscrutable. In his last year he half-boasted: "You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history." He left a mixed enough legacy: "divine revelations" on subjects ranging from the Church of God to the price of stocks; a dank aura of scandal; a church which, a century after his death, has a million members...