Word: dishonors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John L. McLaurin. "Pitchfork Ben"* Tillman, an ill-mannered, unprincipled demagogue, a master of the unfounded accusation (in a sense, the McCarthy of his day), started a fist fight with McLaurin on the Senate floor. Fellow Senators pulled them apart, later voted to censure both. Tillman survived the dishonor, was later re-elected to the Senate twice, and died in office. McLaurin served out his term, but did not seek reelection. The bad blood between the two men was caused in part by McLaurin's unfounded charge that Pitchfork Ben was an "intellectual...
...Committee, as his aide, the assistant to the president of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. Since the committee was discussing a tariff bill of particular interest to manufacturers, the Senate found that Bingham's action was "contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics . . . (tending) ... to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." Bingham served the rest of his term, unsuccessfully sought re-election in 1932, and retired from politics...
...returned to New York, practiced law successfully for 24 more years, married an aging prostitute who in a year accused him of infidelity. At 80, Burr, full of years and dishonor, died after making a will in favor of two illegitimate daughters, aged 6 and 2. CJ John Tyler was nominated for Vice President (1840) by the Whigs because, as a Jeffersonian, he was a nuisance to them in the Senate. A month after he was inaugurated, Tyler was playing marbles in a Williamsburg street when Daniel Webster's son brought him the news that President William Henry Harrison...
...would have less reason to fear a rearmed West Germany. So argues an increasing number of politicians, whose spokesman, Pierre Mendés-France, came close to being Premier five weeks ago. Watching the U.N. negotiating with the Communists in Korea, they feel that there can be no dishonor in opening negotiations with the Viet Minh Communists...
...become a badge of dishonor...