Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid growing storm and scandal throughout the nation, Huey served three years as governor, building 8,500 miles of roads, distributing 600,000 free schoolbooks, teaching 100,000 illiterate adults how to read and write so that they could qualify as kings. Huey dispensed thousands of jobs to consolidate his power, converted the state police into a semiprivate army, and ran up the state debt from $11 million to more than $100 million. Huey called the state legislature "the finest collection of lawmakers money can buy." Earl's contribution was often to placate or scare the lawmakers...
...State Capitol by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, on account of a family grudge. Needing a Long, however unpalatable, Huey's machine put Earl on the ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1939 Earl won promotion when Governor Leche resigned shortly before the discovery of a state mail-fraud scandal. There followed a raucous conflict be tween the Long forces and a group of reformers, out of which Earl Long emerged once more, in 1948, for the second time governor of Louisiana...
...upper classes ... do not realize the daily scandal which they present to the nation. They do not have the remotest idea of the atmosphere which their insensitive conduct foments in factories, in the fields, in the university and in professional circles." The bishop may have had in mind the secret government poll taken recently at the University of Madrid, which showed 60% of the students against the regime (TIME...
...headlong pride, Captain Michales, singlehanded, routs a band of Turkish agas (military overlords) from their favorite coffeehouse. For this scandal, a handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri Bey. The unmanning of the Turk would scarcely disturb Captain Michales, except that Nuri Bey's wife, an almond-eyed Circassian beauty, is already in his blood as if he had drunk a love potion. Captain Michales smothers his desire, but smolders over his comrade-in-arms, Captain Polyxigis, who does...
...Boise courtroom last week, five more men were sentenced to prison in the city's shocking homosexual scandal (TIME. Dec. 12) in which scores of boys were involved as victims. Joe Moore, vice president of the Idaho First National Bank and a leading citizen, got seven years, and four others drew terms ranging from six months to ten years...