Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hinted that Mr. MacDonald and Sir John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted from Stresa that British foreign policy is not the business of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This scandal unmasked the long-suspected Cabinet split which has made the Empire's foreign policy for months a policy of drift, got Stresa down to tacks so brassy that the Conference was said to have been wrecked at the start...
...Golden Miller won. The knot of people at the first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller taking the jump perfectly and contradicting Jockey Wilson's explanation that his horse had tried to refuse, lumbered into the top of the fence. Also next day, to show her faith...
...result is abnormally high food prices, demanded and obtained because segregated Negroes cannot trade elsewhere. And Harlem's housing problem is an open scandal. The Urban League, estimating that 50% of an employed Negro's income must go for rent, has found that Harlem rentals are from 15% to 20% higher than those in the corresponding poor quarters of the city's French, Germans, Italians, Jews. High rents mean unhealthy "doubling up" of families. So, while Harlem's broad, clean streets make a better appearance than those of Yorkville or Little Italy, the district...
...first thoroughgoing scandal in the Academy's 110 years occurred three months ago when an Academician was expelled in disgrace (TIME, Dec. 17). Stephen Bransgrove was an Australian scene painter who had won the Ellin P. Speyer prize for animal portraiture in 1933 with a canvas which he had copied stroke for stroke from a colored reproduction in a British magazine. The animal prize was awarded this year to a heavy plaster statue of a pelican swallowing a fish, by the eminently reputable Bruce Moore...
...Pied Pipers" All last week the nation's attention was held fast by the performance of two politicians, a priest and a onetime plow manufacturer. No public issue of any consequence was involved. No principle was at stake. No precedent was established. No scandal was exposed. Yet the man-in-the-street watched and listened with the same fascination that would make him pause to witness a dog fight. When the fusillade of vilification, obloquy, traducement and backbiting ceased, the chief result seemed to be that Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long had received the most thundering mass of publicity...