Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Minister de Monzie and Accuser Henriot had not yet fought their duel, but the Government grew so nervous as debate on the Stavisky scandal was resumed that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police...
Guessing that the pseudo-apostolic Reichsführer would relish an attack on a Hohenzollern, blatant Der Deutsche, organ of the Nazi Labor Front, flayed onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm for collecting fat fees from sportsmen who lease the shooting rights on his Silesian estates. Calling this a "scandal," Der Deutsche demanded that unemployed persons be settled on the estates as farmers, "thus creating thousands of jobs and millions in new values...
Peculiarly Bolshevik was a scandal which broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
...reason for this turmoil is, of course, the unsavory scandal created by the revelation that members of the government were connected with the Stavisky affair. No one is directly implicated, but the mere breath of rumor has been enough to inflame French public opinion to a fever pitch; the incompetence and mismanagement of which the government has been guilty have shocked and disgusted the public. In addition to this there is ample reason for assuming that the "suicide" of M. Stavisky was arranged by the police as the most efficient means of keeping that unfortunate financier from talking indiscreetly...
...What scandal forced a French Mayor to shiver in a jail in which he had refused to install central heating...