Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Kintner added the remarkable claim that NBC had got its "first established evidence of quiz-show rigging" only through the Washington hearings, and that he had not known about any kind of rigging until mid-August...
...affair suggests about the TV industry in general. "It could happen to anyone," says NBC Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff. But it seems plain that the special TV environment, with its relentless pressure for higher ratings and higher profits, was at least in part to blame. Newly aroused by the Washington hearings, critics of television began looking for other kinds of coaxial fraud...
...lean, spectacled Hall-of-Ivy type at the time, at first "didn't even know where Wall Street was." But he learned quickly. Though an ardent New Dealer and F.D.R. favorite, able Newsman Kintner developed and retained a high regard for big "business. For five years in Washington, he wrote a column, "The Capital Parade," in partnership with doom-crying Columnist Joseph Alsop ("Joe tended to destroy the world every time I was out of town"). After a wartime career in Army intelligence and public relations, Bob Kintner became an assistant to Edward J. Noble, who had bought...
...William Langer, 73, fiery oddball Republican Senator from North Dakota (since 1940); in Washington. A harddriving, hell-raising nonconformist who chewed unlighted cigars in their cellophane wrappers, baffled poll takers and battled all the harder when downed by defeat. "Wild Bill'' Langer was a hired farm hand at 15, a lawyer at 20, a Columbia University liberal arts graduate at 24, a county prosecutor at 28. Defeated for Governor in 1920 and for attorney general in 1928, he ran again in 1932, won the governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign...
...leader" in the days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley his due and his comeuppance too. If he remains...