Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they refused to unseat Senator Newbury who clearly violated the Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...
...with thankful hearts that the public begins to see the Oil-Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...
...times the penalty. ¶ The new member of the Committee, Senator Spencer, Republican of Missouri, proved a Tartar, carrying the war of words into the Democratic camp and clashing with Senator Walsh of Montana. To the attempts of Senator Walsh to attach the Republican National Committee to the oil scandal by means of its campaign contributions, Senator Spencer countered by subpenaing officials of the Democratic National Committee and Senator Walsh's brother and attorney. Instead of Walsh alone, Walsh and Spencer now share the leading role of chief investigator. Daugherty : ¶ Following Mr. Daugherty's resignation from...
...spent for this. You can draw your own conclusions as to whose." Mr. Vanderlip's new efforts did not save him from more criticism, however. F. Trubee Davison,* Assemblyman (i.e., State Representative) in New York, speaking before a political gathering of women, exclaimed: "And the cowardice of their [scandal investigators'] attacks reached its culmination when Mr. Vanderlip assailed the reputation of a dead President who could make no answer to those accusations. What Mr. Vanderlip needs is a punch in the jaw to bring him back to a realization of a proper sense of values." Mr. Vanderlip wrote...
Probably there are certain evil persons,--no friends of the present Administration,--who derive a soul-satisfying pleasure from reading carefully every shameful account of corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics...