Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the Senate voted seasoned observers thought that the French Cabinet would win through, for its members were not in fact tarred with the Oustric scandal. However go-getting "Napoleon Tardieu" has long seemed too much of "a young man in a hurry" to many an aged Senator. Wire-pulling forces worked against him. His Cabinet fell by the close vote...
...Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General of Australia. That the King-Emperor would perform what had been promised by one subject to another in advance; that Mr. Scullin should have proved strong enough to make His Majesty do it-such was the Empire scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician, is ideally fitted to receive viceregal honors by the dignity of his present office: Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Born the son of an humble Australian tailor...
Then, with a decidedly horror-stricken parlor remark, "Audacious" utters a "Do you know, my dear?" to the effect that Harvard men actually go to their nine o'clocks in full dress after returning from affairs lasting until dawn in the mauve ballrooms of Greater Boston. Tickled with this scandal, the dilettante society reporter proceeds to explain that the list is graded socially and not athletically. To quote: "If a man goes to Harvard and makes a varsity team, he usually makes the good clubs and therefore 'rates' at Harvard. But many who 'rate' at Harvard do not 'rate' socially...
...legislation last December by which the old law limiting the State's deposits in any one bank had been amended. There was talk of impeaching Governor Henry Hollis Horton. State's Attorney General L. D. Smith said he knew no "friend" when it came to investigating the bank scandal, would prosecute to the limit. From Manhattan came an offer for a $5,000,000 loan to the State by Chemical Bank & Trust Co., long Tennessee's fiscal agent...
Here was real scandal. Quick were the official denials. First denial, relayed from Vienna, announced that there had been no assassins; the shooting was accidental, due to the discharge of one of the railway guard's rifle. This was not enough for Minister of Communications Petko Stainoff, who categorically denied that there had been any shooting...