She later liked to say that she owed her job in part to Fanne Foxe, the stripper.
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Also a bonegrace for a woman. Also the husk or cod of any > seede or corne. also a broad spreding bunch, as of fenell, nill, or elder > bloomes. In Randle Cotgrave's Dictionary of the French and English Tongues (1614), the French Ombrelle is translated > An umbrello; a (fashion of) round and broad fanne, wherewith the Indians > (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of a > scorching sunne; and hence any little shadow, fanne, or thing, wherewith > women hide their faces from the sunne.
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On 30 January, Giampiero Picello, a security guard in Rimini, was killed during a robbery in a supermarket.shtml "Fanne another son" Corriere della Sera 21 November 1995 On 20 February, Carlo Beccari, a supermarket security guard in Casalecchio di Reno was killed. Francesco Cataldi, a colleague of Beccari, is wounded.bomb- resta.
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Mills was involved in a traffic incident in Washington, DC at 2a.m. on October 9, 1974. U.S. Park Police stopped his car late at night because he had not activated the vehicle's headlights. Mills was intoxicated, and his face was injured following a scuffle with Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe, a stripper from Argentina.
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Fanne Foxe (born Annabelle Battistella on February 14, 1936, in Nueve de Julio, Argentina) is a former stripper, best known for being involved in a 1974 sex scandal surrounding Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills, in what is reputed to be one of the most reported political sex scandals of the 1970s. She is on the Time list of Top 10 Mistresses, and on the Bloomberg list of Top 10 U.S. sex scandals.
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As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Mills played a large role in establishing Medicare. He also helped pass the Tax Reform Act of 1969, which created the alternative minimum tax. Mills ran for president in 1972, championing an automatic cost of living adjustment to Social Security, but he performed poorly in the Democratic primaries. After two public incidents with a stripper named Fanne Foxe, he declined to seek re-election in 1976.
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Fanne Foxe is third on Time's list of Top 10 Mistresses, and the scandal is listed as number 3 in the Top 10 U.S. sex scandals by Bloomberg in 2009. As an exotic dancer she was well received long before the Mills incident. A month after the October 1974 scandal, Bill O'Reilly interviewed her. He recounts that she told him of an interest to attend medical school after two more years of dancing.
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March was also briefly involved with former Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills. In order to get rid of Mills, whom she said she could not stand, March introduced Mills to a friend and fellow stripper, Fanne Foxe. For a brief time, March was engaged to singer, Mel Torme, who was to be her fourth husband. She jilted Torme to marry a man who owned a string of drugstores.
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When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the vehicle and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin in an attempt to escape. She was taken to St. Elizabeths Mental Hospital for treatment. Despite the scandal, Mills was re-elected in November 1974 in a heavily Democratic year with nearly 60% of the vote, defeating Republican Judy Petty. On November 30, 1974, Mills, seemingly drunk, was accompanied by Fanne Foxe's husband onstage at The Pilgrim Theatre in Boston, a burlesque house where Foxe was performing.
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The Pilgrim Theater, 1960s. City Censor, City of Boston LaGrange Street, a small one-way street which runs between Washington and Tremont Streets, was the principal gathering spot for street prostitutes. Most congregated near "Good Time Charlie's" at 25 LaGrange Street. The Pilgrim Theater, one of the last old time burlesque houses, was the site of a political scandal in December 1974 when the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills, seemingly inebriated, appeared on stage with stripper Fanne Foxe, "The Argentine Firecracker".
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The Tidal Basin was the scene of an incident involving the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, Democratic Congressman Wilbur Mills. On October 7, 1974, Mills' car, with an Argentine stripper known as Fanne Foxe in the back with Mills and driven by a former Nixon staffer, was stopped by US Park police late at night because the driver had not turned on the headlights. Mills was intoxicated and his face was cut from a fight with Foxe. When police approached the car, Foxe leapt from the car and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin.
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