Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned gambling games as "unworthy of our Catholic people ... causing much scandal," and prohibited dancing and drinking at church-sponsored entertainments...
...Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised to carry forward van Zeeland's extension of unemployment insurance, health insurance...
...patterned along the lines of the present Pulitzer Prizes, which are widely publicized and eagerly sought after by some journalists. Their appeal, however, is mainly to certain excellent papers already in existence, and again, it is highly problematical if such awards could actually "elevate the standards" of scandal sheets which are quite content to remain just that...
That makeshift ward recently became a subject of scandal when Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association threatened to bring it to the attention of "the medical profession and the people of America." On a visit to it he had found 27 patients using ten three-quarter beds (two resting and one waiting his turn), and men and women suffering from tuberculosis and other contagious diseases placed near children of six and seven years...
...first novel, The Gray Notebook, begins when pious, portly Widower Oscar-Marie Thibault discovers that his 14-year-old son Jacques has run away from home after getting mixed up in a scandal at school. Guiltless of anything worse than writing high-flown, affectionate, freethinking notes to a young Protestant, young Jacques flees to Marseille with his easy-going friend Daniel, paces the streets and broods about right and wrong while Daniel is befriended by a warm-hearted girl who solves some moral problems for him without a moment's thought...