Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in separate rooms of the Palais Bourbon two unwieldy parliamentary committees continued their respective investigations of the causes of the rioting on Feb. 6 and of the Stavisky scandal. In the room generally reserved for the committee on the army and handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France...
...Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly becoming the greatest political crime of the 20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory...
Scratching over the military expenditures section of France's new budget, editors of a political weekly called La Griffe (The Claw) thought they had uncovered another government scandal last week. The French air force of 2,286 effective planes is magnificently staffed with 23 generals, 38 colonels, 73 lieutenant-colonels. 238 battalion chiefs. Tucked in the budget are orders calling for the creation of 40 more battalion chiefs, setting aside 7,498,000 francs for "leave of absence expenses" for the 23 generals, raising the salary of each member of the Air Council 29,880 francs, and giving...
...station, released on $25 bail. By that time Taximan Newman had decided to sue for $100,000 damages. To defend him Statesman Shoemaker got his House colleague. Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin who was once attorney for Jack Dempsey. also for Joe ("Shoeless") Jackson in the 1919 baseball scandal. It was not the first time that stocky, pugnacious Francis Shoemaker had been arrested for assault. Last April when he was annoyed by the radio of one Theodore Cohen, a neighbor in Washington's Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen's room and punched...
...temples still standing. On north boundary Rouba-el-Khali. Have taken photographs for l'Intransigeant-André Malraux." Those electric words, cabled from Djibouti in far-off French Somaliland, last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer who has done some poking around in French Indo-China...