Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption. Only last week another blossom opened. In Manhattan a grand jury indicted one time Attorney General Harry Daugherty, his good friend, the late Jesse Smith, John T. King, onetime Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, and Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during...
Nearly two months ago, Charles R. Forbes, onetime Director of the Veterans' Bureau, entered Leavenworth Prison for conspiracy to defraud the Government in the Veterans' hospital scandal (TIME, March 29), which like the oil scandal spread its shadow over the Harding Administration. His fellow conspirator, John W. Thompson, likewise convicted, did not enter the prison because his lawyers represented that his health was poor. The Court ordered the lawyers to make a final argument in Chicago this week. Last week, however, Mr. Thompson, 64 and worried, died of a heart attack...
...credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification of election returns and the city-wide sticker scandal of the Vare gang of Philadelphia. . . . "The Vare penmen not only forged names but invented persons. Two Vare penmen in the Sixth Division of the 32nd ward turned out a full sheet of forgeries. One wrote 29 signatures and the other 15 all copied from the street list. But instead...
...everyone knows, the condemnation for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, and his subsequent rehabilitation created an international scandal almost without precedent between 1904 and 1906. Anti-Semitism was the basis of the incredibly unjust treatment which Dreyfus received, but the trial stirred animosities which penetrated to the very core of French politics...
...Paul, had resigned as a director after the leasing (at his recommendation) of the two short roads in question, had taken a directorship in the puny belt line chiefly to get free pass privileges on other roads??, believed the St. Paul profited from the leases, knew of no scandal...