Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once said, and wisely: "There is more Hoover in the Administration than any other one person." And what does Herbert Hoover typify? Economic goodliness, organizing skill, a harmless personality with neither pungent anecdotes nor the taint of scandal. And what does the Coolidge Administration typify? The same things...
...Trial. The jury which hopes either to convict or to clear Messrs. Fall and Doheny before Christmas is composed of typically average U. S. citizens-a steamfitter, an artist, a cigar store clerk, an expressman, etc. Most of them, when asked if they knew anything about the oil scandal, said, "Yes, we have noticed it in the headlines, but never looked into it deeply enough to form any definite opinions...
...also the year of the unpleasant 'Marconi scandal,' in which I had no part. The British Postoffice approved a tender of my British company to build stations for its use. Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney General, later Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, to buy shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately...
...York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter to the decision. . . . That any woman of middle age, after years of married, life, should be willing to swear that her parents sold her for worldly gain, and against her will, is a scandal. . . ." He came to his evident point: "If couples who have lived years in wedlock can procure annulments merely by discovering that undue pressure in some form was used at the time of their marriage, divorce will become unnecessary...
...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...