Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confirmed by vote of 59 to 13 the nomination of ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene, Democrat of Ohio, as special counsel for the Government in the oil scandal...
...long suffering public is entitled to what little pleasure it can extract from its daily measure of scandal. The sibylline Senator from New Hampshire, George Higgins Moses, happily forecasting no restriction of the oil scandal ration, said...
...rumor, in the hope that that rumor would be arrested and slain by investigation. He did not know that the Senate Public Lands Committee had been advised not to force Mr. Fall to testify because such testimony would give him immunity from prosecution. He knew nothing about the oil scandal not acquired from the press and from rumor. He had not sent a report of the rumors which he voiced to the Committee on Public Lands because he did not know that that Committee had anything to do with newspapers...
...that there was such a story. It was something rivalling the importance of the whispered campaign that there was in the last month before Mr. Harding's election, and I believed that out of respect to his memory that thing should be brought up to close scrutiny, and the scandal, if it is a scandal, as I believe it is, should be downed...
...politician's private life, for example, must be above reproach. Otherwise he may be connected with some scandal which suddenly blasts his career. Lawyers, even by connection with great business interests become unavailable as candidates for office...