Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamor to bring the boys home grew louder & louder. Millions complained that demobilization was a scandal...
...they looked around for a czar to run the show. What they wanted was a man whose plea for free exchanges would be listened to in Washington; whose firm hand would keep the traders in line, so that there would be no trouble, such as last summer's scandal in rye, to bring down further regulation...
...mainly responsible. As Clio Dulaine, exiled with her mother to Paris by her father's starchy family, she returns to New Orleans after her mother's death with her pretty teeth sharpened for revenge. She gets it by the rather oversimple expedient of making a public scandal of herself with a Texas gambler named Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper). But Clio's calculated bitchery proves too much for the simple gamblin' man who wanders in & out of her bedroom like a cow-country Casanova. He checks out for Saratoga, which seems to be full of millionaire suckers...
...West Virginia Wesleyan (where he had played end and earned his nickname), Washington & Jefferson, and West Virginia. In the famed Black Sox scandal 1919 World Series, he played a hard-hitting right field for the Cincinnati Reds...
...Harry Truman voted 99% New Deal, Bennett Clark had chipped and sniped away at Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1944 primaries, Clark was repudiated by Missouri voters in the primary, largely on the strength of labor opposition. Now labor was furious. Cried C.I.O. Spokesman J. Raymond Walsh: "A scandal, crude and inexcusable. . . . It's not dishonest, it's simply dangerous...