Word: scandale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happily trying one on for size last week. The fit was just about perfect. Last summer's Kansas City primary, in which President Harry Truman successfully purged Democratic Congressman Roger Slaughter-"If he's right," said Truman, "I'm wrong"-was shaping into a natty political scandal...
...scandal had been shaping up ever since the House Campaign Expenditures Committee and the Kansas City Star began investigating the primary day balloting last fall. They had discovered plenty of evidence of fraud at the polls, demanded that the Justice Department look into it. While Attorney General Tom Clark dawdled, a Jackson County grand jury opened the ballot boxes from 34 out of 255 precincts, found a "deliberate, calculated and premeditated plan" to miscount, steal and buy votes. Said the jury, which had already indicted 71: "It is our belief that Roger C. Slaughter was deprived of the nomination...
...music scandal of the year was the row which led to the resignation...
...Canada, opinion is divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill...
...psychology.* For contemporary Denmark's official church Christianity, Protestant Kierkegaard had nothing but contempt, though he himself had been trained for the Danish ministry. His anger boiled over in such pronouncements as "Parsons canonize bourgeois mediocrity" and "Official Christianity is both aesthetically and intellectually ludicrous and indecent, a scandal in the Christian sense." On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires, and royal functionaires are not related to Christianity...