Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monarchist batteries replied fiercely that the Socialists knew that the amounts were being paid in 1923 and accused them of seeking to cloud over the Barmat scandal (see under) in which they are hopelessly implicated. Moreover, it was declared that the Government was entitled to make these payments without reference to the Reichstag by virtue of special emergency legislation...
...Barmat Scandal. For long it has been the practice of the German Government departments to invest their idle funds. Under the Bauer (Socialist) regime (June, 1919?Mar., 1920), the Ministry of Posts, which always has the largest cash reserves, invested through the firm of Barmat Brothers and other financial agents a large sum. The Government received in return questionable securities...
Gaston B. Means. The sensational witness of the scandal inquiries a year ago which drove Messrs. Denby and Daugherty from the Cabinet, Gaston B. Means, had been on trial for several weeks in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. He and a lawyer as sociate, Colonel Thomas B. Felder, were on trial for conspiracy to obstruct justice. It was charged that they had benefited, to the sum of $65,000, taken from a number of men under indictment for misuse of the mails; by agreeing to prevent prosecution of the case. Instead the indicted men were convicted and made charges...
...reporting sensational law suits in the public press is typified by the publication of photographs of courtroom scenes. The attendant stories stress in like fashion those features which excite popular attention. This sating of the public appetite for the unusual not only brings the undesirable results incident to all scandal, but is peculiarly harmful in its effect upon the administration of justice. Thus we find the presentation of a trial in the light of a theatrical performance rather than a dispassionate inquiry into the merits of the case. This is bound to lessen respect for the law and its instrumentalities...
Grove Patterson of The Toledo Blade protested against the indiscriminate publication of details in scandal cases, citing the recent cases of Percy Stickney Grant, the blackmailed rajah, Leonard Kip Rhinelander...