Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farley or companies in which he is interested to profit from PWA contracts. It was a shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points; Mr. Ickes' investigators have been tireless in investigating PWA bids. It was calculated not only to find scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked down a long vista of trouble with Huey Long hammering at their Party manager. Yet that day, Huey's daily denunciation went astray. When he rose to begin, Democratic Leader Robinson agreed to the demand for any data...
Somebody, opined political wiseacres, had fallen into a trap. If Mr. Ickes' files revealed any scandal, the Administration would be in hot water indeed. If they revealed none, Huey Long's scandal quest was made ridiculous at the outset...
...further definitely determined to do everything in its power to avoid the slightest semblance of a mass attack by a disgruntled and radical minority upon the University, making impossible and extreme demands with a vaporous and absurd threat of scandal mongering and ballyhoo...
Still hog-tied by Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
...that, after the bribe receipt was found, nothing was done except to discipline a certain Major Tanaka, apparently because he blabbed the secret to members of the Young Officers League. These naive hotheads, not realizing that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...