Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Congress was thus worrying over "almost criminal" receiverships in Chicago, it was doing nothing to help Federal judges in New York keep bankruptcies clean and honest. Last week in conference, awaiting final passage by both Houses, was a new corporate bankruptcy act, seeded with possible scandal...
Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
There was an intense amount of internal and international noise over the scandal, but it subsided in the general political turnover in Rumania last fall. And everything, including the bribes, is just about where it was, except General Popescu, who, in a fit of conscience, shot himself fatally through the head...
This could mean only one thing STAVISKY. It was Deputy Henriot's accusations in the Chamber following the collapse of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop that started the Stavisky scandal. This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared...
Once before this year the Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged...