Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, Eisenhower headquarters kept a lofty silence. Then, as the wind began to scream outside, an Ike lieutenant blasted back. Said he: "The vicious and false charges . . . show the same desperation and lack of good morals as the Texas convention scandal . . . The Eisenhower national headquarters is not paying any delegate expenses. Many delegates have expressed a desire to meet with General Eisenhower, and they have been invited to meet with him. In accordance with usual custom, their expenses will be paid either by themselves or by. local committees, clubs or individuals...
...Gross lost a gambling empire but gained a fearsome and ironic political power. He used it for all it was worth. By talking his head off before a grand jury about cop-bribing during Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's regime, he exploded the biggest New York corruption scandal since the days of Jimmie Walker. Then, after a total of 77 blue-coats had been named as defendants or coconspirators, Gross managed, with consummate gall, to spring them...
...naming four of O'Dwyer's high police officials (all now retired) who had never been publicly accused in connection with the gambling scandal. Witness Gross testified that he had not only bribed Chief Inspector August W. Flath, Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner Frank C. Bals, onetime head of a special "mayor's squad," and Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen, but also former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien, a man of whom O'Dwyer said in 1950: "I believe Bill O'Brien is as honest a man as I have ever known...
...showed a paunchy, string-tied figure labeled "G.O.P." raising his hands in horror at the very thought of Tammany Hall, while behind him stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Next to the Depression itself, a Kirby cartoon ("Two Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned...
Since the first mink coat appeared on the Washington scandal scene, you have scarcely missed an issue wherein you did not drag mink and mink coats in general through...