Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three months political India has been agog over a scandal centering around one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal aides, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named...
...feeds ants by scattering food on the floor for them, did not help any by admitting that he contributed $21,000 to the Congress Party in the election. The Communists crowed, and Congress Party editorialists wanly consoled themselves by hailing the regime's willingness to bring the scandal into the open. Said the independent Hindustan Standard: "Nothing short of Indian democracy itself was on trial, and both government and people have emerged with not a little credit to themselves...
...steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock Quarry," for failing to hit the big scandal magazines with the "slight perversions" suburbia currently demands ("I am spitting my Miltown...
...board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets" to do even more damage. But the board had laid down a dramatic challenge. Somehow, it said in effect, the city and state must provide what is needed to cope with New York's shocking delinquency scandal-and let the schools get back to the job of education...
Herb Hames's winning streak started petering out in mid-1955, after the death of longtime Publisher Fred A. Sapp. The paper was sold (for $750,000) to the late Leslie Small, son of Illinois' longtime scandal-tainted Republican Governor (1921-29) Lennington Small, and his sons, Len and Burrell, who also publish the nearby Kankakee Journal (circ. 24,960). Since the new publishers frowned on controversial stories and insisted that all editorials on local topics be cleared with the business office, Herb Hames buttoned his typewriter on local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY...