Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over to military courts; terrorists, saboteurs and "speculators harmful to the national economy" who were caught redhanded were to be sentenced to death. That night, an 11 o'clock curfew was clamped on Saigon, and censors moved in on the capital's 40-odd newspapers and political scandal sheets...
...Last month's scandal of the leaked bachot questions (TiME, July 10) was solved last week when an Education Ministry clerk confessed to stealing them for her ami, who passed them on to friends...
Inevitably, the regulators are targets of aggressive lobbying, and occasionally they get involved in a scandal with a Bobby Baker or a Sherman Adams. One of their traditional weaknesses is that many appointees come with little firsthand knowledge of the fields they will regulate. The men who regulate million-dollar industries are not highly paid-commission chairmen get up to $21,500 and powerful examiners get about...
...nothing was said. Harding, of course, was elected, and presided for three years over the most scandal-scarred Administration in U.S. history. After his death in 1923, another woman, Nan Britton, wrote a book describing a long love affair with Harding, one that began in 1917. She had borne his daughter, Nan claimed, and had continued her clandestine affair with Harding through the years of his presidency...
...Pius XII told Beck in a 1957 interview, he would have to find a bishop who would promise to support him. Bishop Mark Carroll of Wichita, Kans., stepped in with an offer shortly before Pius died, but Pope John subsequently decided that there would be too much danger of scandal if Beck served in the U.S., suggested that he find a bishop somewhere else...