Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This angry cry from an Episcopal pastor last week was disturbing clergy and laymen in the Episcopal Church and many another denomination. The scandal was an old one: the woefully meager pensions doled out by most churches to retired ministers or their widows. Mostly, the pensions are scaled to the dollar value of a generation or more...
...nation's top newspapers last week drubbed their journalistic brethren for ignoring or suppressing a scandal in the family. Snapped the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "A conspiracy of silence." Added the Washington Post: "At best [a] crass indifference to a particularly juicy bit of news. At worst ... a cover-up of scandal within the family...
...scandal they were talking about was first turned up last month by Reporters George Thieni of the Chicago Daily News and Roy Harris of the Post-Dispatch. Thiem and Harris, who were covering the state capitol at Springfield, had spent two weeks digging through old Illinois state payrolls to unearth the smelly story. At least 33 Illinois editors & publishers of small-town newspapers, they reported, had been paid a total of $305,000 by the State of Illinois during the two terms of Republican Governor Dwight Green, defeated last November. Their relatives had pocketed another...
...papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week-old story. This week Reporter Thiem turned up four names missed the first time, boosting the ante...
...time, besides his duties as head of a Methodist girls' school, he edited a newspaper, ran the Anti-Saloon League, speculated heavily on Wall Street and was one of the most active lobbyists for legal morality in Washington. His handling of political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always got off scot free, though only his plea for Christian forgiveness saved him from the wrath of fellow...