Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy Hoffa, tarred by scandal and scarred by his union's expulsion from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., is out to prove to the boys that he is still their resolute leader by squeezing a whacking wage boost out of trucking firms this spring...
Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery. Samuel Insull Jr., 57, once his father's righthand man and now a Chicago insurance salesman, bore up steadily under the legacy. Last week he rebelled...
...raking in the shekels with the other for flaming advertisements of syphilitic nostrums." He riddled one proposal that Baptists do business only with Baptists. He ridiculed Waco's Sunday blue laws, mocked how the town fretted about liquor sales while it licensed prostitutes. He seized avidly on the scandal of a 14-year-old Brazilian girl who, studying at Baylor and living in the home of its president, became pregnant and charged that she was raped by the brother of the president's Baptist minister...
Died. Howard Rushmore, 45, sometime (1936-39) film critic for the Communist Daily Worker, longtime (1939-54) Red-hunting reporter for the New York Journal-American, ex-editor of scandal-pandering Confidential; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his estranged second wife Frances, 37, in a Manhattan taxi. Big (6 ft. 4 in.), brooding Reporter Rushmore, "Tenth Generation American," joined the Communist Party in 1933, quit after the Worker rejected his off-the-line review of Gone With the Wind, soon became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified...
...upperclass years, Roosevelt ate at his various sophomore, junior, and "final" clubs--the Institute of 1770, the DKE, and the Fly. But he failed to gain election to the most elite club--the Porcellian--despite the fact that his cousin Theodore had been a member. A scandal involving one of his cousins may have hurt his chances. But whatever the reason for his rejection, it was a serious blow to him. Eleanor Roosevelt thought it gave him an inferiority complex and led him to become more democratic...