Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Warren was delighted about all this, for if disgruntled old U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson decides not to run in 1940, and Earl Warren goes out for the job, he may have to beat out Frank Finley Merriam. Handed the makings of a useful Merriam-Megladdery scandal, ambitious Earl Warren set a grand jury after Mark Megladdery, revealing that in 1936-37 he deposited $6,000 more than his salary, that his propensity for passing rubber checks had extended to State bureaus and even to Miss De Vine...
...January 1934 he formed another government only a few days before the Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater...
...first public-relations job was for President Harding, who wanted a brewing scandal in the Veterans Administration hushed. About 1928 he hooked up with the Democratic Party, now would like to have it believed he stands in well with Franklin Roosevelt. He is a trustee of the National Home Library Foundation, brags he has an entree to the liberal group surrounding Louis Brandeis. He wears thick-lensed glasses when he reads, plays the piano, has two children and a handsome apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He calls almost anyone he meets by his first name or nickname within...
...Sphinxlike silence on controversial problems kept him in power. In foreign policy he snuggled close to Benito Mussolini, managed to keep on passably good terms with Yugoslavia and Rumania, but detested Eduard Benes, the Czech Foreign Minister, who tried to get his scalp in the 1925 French banknote forgery scandal involving the Count's close associates. Count Bethlen's great dream was a bloc of "revisionist" States to overturn the Versailles and Trianon settlements...
...Beyond that, their functions are virtually unregulated by law. Their methods of auditing and analyzing a corporation's balance sheet are their own, the developments of over 400 years of practice. The U. S. public first realized that these methods were not always perfect when the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December. How was it possible, the average investor asked, for $18,000,000 in fictitious inventories to deceive seasoned accountants...