Word: scandal
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...First adopted in the U.S. by the city of Los Angeles in 1903, the recall has been used to topple two mayors there and to unseat city officers elsewhere. Only North Dakota has ever ousted a Governor-Lynn Joseph Frazier, in 1921, because of a bank scandal. The same electorate sent him to the U.S. Senate the very next year...
...late William Parker, Reddin's predecessor, was the epitome of the police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround...
...very happy" to buy and sell for the funds for 30% to 50% of the prescribed minimum fee. "I don't want the full commission," he said. "I couldn't even count it all." A Question of Confidence. Though the SEC maintains it is not hunting for scandal, Wall Street always fears that hearings may cause a loss of public confidence in the securities market. Before the current inquiry winds up, the commission expects it to widen into the most comprehensive investigation of the stock exchanges in a generation. The SEC plans to delve into everything from access...
LAND OF THE GUN, headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired...
...with a legendary ability as a problem-fixer and a penchant for never repeating a confidence made Lawyer Fortas one of Washington's most influential private citizens long before his court appointment. It also made him a trusted adviser of President Johnson on everything from the Walter Jenkins scandal to the Dominican crisis. When Arthur Goldberg resigned from the court to move to the U.N., Johnson's first choice to replace him was inevitably Fortas. It was a political convenience that Fortas also happened to be Jewish and it was the court's "Jewish seat" that...