Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAVE THIS ARMY NOW, I TELL YOU PLAINLY THAT I OWE NO THANKS TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON IN WASHINGTON. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO SACRIFICE THIS ARMY. McClellan Was Soon openly antagonistic toward President Lincoln and his Administration and his criticisms became a major scandal. Lincoln removed McClellan from command in November 1862, after McClellan failed to crush Lee at Antietam. In 1864, McClellan became Democratic candidate for President. He was overwhelmingly defeated by Lincoln and resigned from the Army...
...which the press has emphasized the personalities angle of the dispute. The problem is really not whether Truman has the right to remove such a popular and brilliant commander in the time of crisis, or whether MacArthur in turn is justified in turning the whole thing into a political scandal. On these superficial issuses I, speaking for the Harvard World Federalists, take no stand. However, on the deeper more basic issues at hand I feel I can take a stand...
...late Joseph Freeman, onetime Washington business agent indicted in the Garsson-May munitions scandal but later acquitted, demanded $100,000 for steering Green to the right people. Freeman never did a thing, said Green, but after he died, the truck dealer softheartedly thought of Freeman's widow and infant and settled out of court...
Someone has dubbed Senior Prom weekend at Vassar "Southern Scandal." If you're planning to attend anyhow, you may expect to find a cocktail party (spontaneous) in the Alumnae House between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, followed by a Candlelight Dinner in Main Hall (spontaneous) at 7 p.m. The Prom will start...
Then reporters wanted to know about Presidential Assistant Donald Dawson, whose honor, ethics and uprightness had been questioned in the RFC scandal, and who had so far avoided the chance to straighten it all out before the investigating Fulbright subcommittee. Had the President asked Dawson to go clear himself? That, thought the President, .was the committee's business not his. "You don't intend to fire Mr. Dawson from the White House?" No, said Harry Truman curtly, gesturing at Dawson sitting three feet behind him. Dawson was right there, wasn't he? That was all there...