Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MAYOR KELLY IN BIG U.S. INCOME TAX SCANDAL...
...spent $1,000,000 on a useless bridle path along McCormick Boulevard ("From Nowhere to Nowhere") which should have cost less than $300,000. It set up dummy concerns to buy and sell building materials at outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State...
...friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary District scandal began to fade most people were ready to forgive and forget whatever part friendly, genial Ed Kelly might have had in it. But since then things have changed. The U.S. had jailed Gangster Al Capone for eleven years for dodging his income tax. Many a good Chicagoan agreed with President...
MURDERS AT SCANDAL HOUSE- Peter Hunt - Appleton-Century ($2). There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost...
...HATTER MYSTERY - John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member...