Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many an observer, first U. S. debates about the war were as big a scandal as Teapot Dome. A dead-centre discussion in which debaters were alternately flogged as Get-inners and Stay-outers, it raged and enraged as long as the Neutrality Bill was being debated, permitted no talk of programs. Last week at the Academy of Political Science, Thomas Lament spoke to 1,000 members on war's effects on U. S. economy, made it clear that, whether or not U. S. citizens agreed or disagreed with his proposals, the Get-in-or-Stay-out-theory...
...without some social vision, King Carol has helped peasants to buy farm implements, inaugurated new educational methods, built better roads, founded air lines. The Army, long deep in scandal, has been tidied up. There is still a long way to go, but the age-old corruption of Rumania, largely a heritage from Turkish days, is being rooted out. To be a Rumanian is no longer just a profession...
...Mercedes-Benz sport car capable of 115 m.p.h. King Carol also gave Mihai's girl friend a decoration. The Order of Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...
...Aldrich on the tariff, forced substantial cuts, then watched the whole country go hog-wild over a headline which twisted a few forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck by Ballinger and fired Roosevelt's protege, Gilford Pinchot...
...Corp. Publisher Walker wanted it as a classroom adjunct to The Grade Teacher, trade journal for educators. Then last year Woolworth's began to look around for new magazines to replace the 5-&-10?store Tower Group, which had just sunk in a morass of financial trouble and scandal...