Word: trombley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismissals also applied to nine Scripps-Howard newspapers and their editors and to historian Kenneth E. Trombley and his publisher, Harper & Bros., New York...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Crisis of the Older Order: "[Insull] dominated Chicago, bribing the state utilities commission, affably encouraging the corruptions of local politics." He took exception to what Kenneth E. Trombley wrote in The Life and Times of a Happy Liberal: "[Insull's career] was to end with his going to jail for embezzlement...
...were convicted of certain crimes when, in fact, we were acquitted on every occasion." * He noted that he was "indissolubly linked" with his father, heading the same companies, accused of the same misdeeds, standing trial in the same courts. Against Correspondent Lucey, nine Scripps-Howard papers. Authors Schlesinger and Trombley and their publishers, Insull filed libel suits for $4,000,000. Said he: "This marks the first attempt of us Insulls to strike back at a 25-year unorganized but consistent campaign to vilify...