Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves, Stevenson's gifts to state employees of money collected for political purposes did not constitute a scandal. They were, however, considerably more unconventional than the Nixon fund, about which Stevenson's personally selected national chairman had raised such an outcry. Probably Chairman Mitchell did not know about the Stevenson fund. Stevenson, who did know about it, justly and prudently refused to get into the pack yapping at Nixon; Stevenson's only comment on Nixon was: Let's wait for all the facts. This week Mitchell, who may have committed the political blooper of the year...
...paternal grandfather came from Germany and he was born in Paris, where his father was studying painting. Democrats are also whispering that Chris Herter is opposed to state-financed buses for parochial schools, which he is not; he opposes buses for such schools as Groton and Andover. The pension scandal gave Herter an issue with which to club Dever, but the effectiveness of Herter's attack is still uncertain...
This year things looked bad for the Republicans. A scandal in the state liquor monopoly had rocked the administration of Governor Frederick G. Payne, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator. Three days before election, the former chairman of the Liquor Commission, a Payne appointee, was indicted. More important was the fact that the party was splintered by factional disputes, including the bitter primary campaign in which Payne defeated Senator Owen Brewster. The Republican nominee for governor, State Senator Burton M. Cross, had three opponents-two disgruntled Republicans running as independents and an ex-Republican running as a Democrat...
Irving Marsh of the New York Herald Tribune described the Brown scandal in which fourteen players were ruled ineligible because of illegal aid. One reporter, who had spoken to Bruin Coach Alva Kelley told how jittery he was. "The man doesn't know where he stands or what to expect, he and the school knew nothing about this deal." They agreed Kelley ought to quit...
...badly led; but the defeat was taken as proof that Egypt's corrupt ruling class had emasculated the country. Egyptian officers, recalls Mohammed Naguib, "were filled with shame . . . We were bitter that our country should be kicked into the dust of the road." In 1950, the Palestine arms scandal broke, and the country learned that swindlers had piled up a fortune of $500,000 by selling the army dud ammunition which exploded prematurely, killing dozens of front-line soldiers. Calling themselves the "Free Officers," a group of young Palestine veterans joined in a national protest presented to the King...