Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, is approaching the end of the egregious Veterans' Bureau scandal. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the Bureau, and J. W. Thompson, a contractor, are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in connection with the letting of contracts for veterans' hospitals. The testimony in large part was noisome if not nauseous; but it is important in that it will probably result in a legat determination of the charges of corruption in the Veterans' Bureau under the Forbes regime...
...Johnson was not satisfied. He insisted that the scandal was a much more extensive affair, that it had not been properly investigated. He declared that the World Series should be called off, that there was crookery abroad. Commissioner Landis paid no attention to Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson called Commissioner Landis a "wild-eyed crazy...
Fierce protest was raised by the offspring of Boryna, quick to object to the bestowal of property which they regarded as rightly theirs on a girl already the object of envy and the target of scandal. The protest of Antek, son of Boryna, was intensified by the fact that he, too, loved the girl who was now robbing him not only of her body, but of his own substance...
Wearing to a close in Los Angeles was the suit of the Government to recover the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, leased to the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. of Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
...midst of all, burst Teapot Dome. Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Harding's Cabinet, was cast in the shadow, if not of crime, at least of grave impropriety in dispensing leases of the Naval Oil Reserves. The Senate went into "hysteria"; the scandal drove two members, Denby and Daugherty, from President Coolidge's Cabinet (TIME, Mar. 17, April 7). But Mr. Coolidge, either indecisive or unwilling to be hurried, was slow in bringing about changes...