Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticeable that other talesmen who had read about the Fall-Sinclair oil scandal in the newspapers were opionated as Grocer Cooperman as to the probity of the defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman...
When the first financial scandal burst in 1892 De Lesseps was convicted of misappropriating money. Fifty million pounds sterling had vanished. Sentence was later remitted because he had only too sanguinely desired to repeat the triumph he had achieved for France in building the Suez Canal in Egypt...
...approved patriotism of the incumbent Secretary of State," mused Senator Glass, "who may exactly say that the exercise-of this unprecedented power, totally at variance with any proper function of the Department of State, will not some day be so flagrantly prostituted as to result in a distressing scandal...
...intend to so waste my time after reading your review of it. But for the first time I am thoroughly disgusted with TIME. My first impulse, after reading page 48 of the Oct. 3rd issue, was to cancel my subscription. That page, with its rehashing of the foul Beecher scandal, would have a familiar setting in the Daily News or the Graphic. It is altogether out of place in TIME. For printing such a scurrilous attack upon one of the most gifted and cultured men who has appeared in the American pulpit you deserve to lose many subscribers...
...World's Series should turn out to be as smelly as one or two of its predecessors, even Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis may begin to doubt whether, after all, the game is worth the scandal...