Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand on football taken by the Ivy League presidents is more than a purity code to impress the scandal-conscious public. If carried out it will shake up the Ivy set-up more than it has been since the eight colleges realized ivy grew on all their walls. If this policy is followed, the eight institutions, which have been ambling off in different directions for years, will join in a formal Ivy League-emphasis on the League...
Neither Planes nor Scandal...
...said [Assistant Navy Secretary for Air] Floberg, that the Navy actually has 1,000 planes fewer than it did 20 months ago when the Korean war began." Bad enough, but still worse, is that an Assistant Navy Secretary for Air can make such a statement without raising a skyrocketing scandal, without a big and hearty outburst of public indignation, without a Senate investigation committee . . . FERENC BARKÓ Rio de Janeiro...
...Symington's first jobs when he took over the scandal-ridden RFC last spring was to probe the RFC's $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Earlier, New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey had charged that there was "fraud and collusion" between RFC and railroad officials in the granting of the 1944 loan. Last week Joseph J. Smith Jr., Symington's special investigator and onetime government attorney, turned in his report. Smith's conclusion: "There was no fraud, collusion or illegality involved . . . The RFC would probably have received more favorable treatment...
...aroma of scandal eddying around the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation arises from irregularities...