Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most sensational development so far in the sugar scandal is the perpetual injunction petitioned for by the Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table...
...price of sugar still advances. Meanwhile the four Federal investigations of the sugar scandal are proceeding slowly and will not be able to publish their findings and punish the guilty until after the bull market has reaped enormous profits for the speculators. It is a case of locking the stable door too late, but it may serve to prevent similar gouges in the future...
...passed that the city which kept the secret inviolate is not New York, nor Chicago, nor Boston, nor Detroit, nor Los Angeles, nor Atlanta, nor Washington, nor Rochester, nor Syracuse, nor Milwaukee, nor San Francisco, nor Seattle, nor Fort Worth, nor Baltimore. Where there is a Hearst paper, no scandal lacks either prophet or historian...
...time of Lord Northcliffe's death that he wished Lady Northcliffe to marry Sir Robert. The attachment of the two is said to be of 15 years standing, and Lord Northcliffe often urged his wife to secure a divorce, which she refused to do for fear of scandal...
While the four Federal agencies are carrying on their four separate investigations of the alleged sugar gouge whereby the price of sugar was pushed up to 10 cents a pound, political factions are busy turning the scandal to account...