Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tells with happy candor the story of the resultant uproar. The few supporters "who thought I wasn't so bad" were "drowned out by the chorus of dismay . . . Just how such a pipsqueak as I turned out to be could also become a major scandal was one of the incongruities of the episode." The other incongruity was a Senate committee going into stitches over George's testimony and ending up by confirming him. He quit after one unspectacular year in RFC, and settled down again to his private enterprises.* Says George modestly: "My record . . . was the record...
...really is fear of damaging its reputation that motivates Harvard then why have different rules for the College and the Graduate School's? A scandal is going to have its repercussions no matter where it takes place; a stream of women emerging from Lowell House at midnight or one o'clock is no less a potential reputation-breaker than a stream of women emerging at midnight from the graduates center. Yet the parietal rules for the new Graduate Center allow the men to entertain chaperoned women in their rooms up to midnight (1 a.m. over the weekend), while the College...
After its first indignation at the discovery that Brooklyn cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from bookies. New York City seemed to relax and enjoy the scandal. This was due, in part, to a certain reluctant civic pride in the proportions of the skulduggery. But mostly it reflected the city's undisguised delight in its new police commissioner. As he took office, burly, well-tailored Thomas Murphy (TIME, Oct. 2) gave New Yorkers the same deliriously doomlike sense of expectancy they had experienced when Babe Ruth strode to the plate in Yankee Stadium...
...political repercussions were even hotter. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri-who moved into City Hall when Mayor William O'Dwyer prudently went off to be Ambassador to Mexico-was obviously praying that the scandal would help him get elected for good in November. The appointment of Murphy was a feather in his cap. But he had plenty of competition...
Regular Democrats applauded the Murphy cleanup but did their best to depict Impellitteri as just an amateur statesman. Republican candidates applauded too, but happily seized on the whole scandal as wonderful campaign proof of Democratic graft and incompetence. According to grapevine report, other Republicans were plotting feverishly to get Ambassador O'Dwyer hauled home to answer a long list of embarrassing questions...