Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, in New York, the judge who handed down jail sentences in the basketball bribery scandal yesterday named eight schools, including Pennsylvania, as examples of athletic over-emphasis. Judge Saul S. Streit, following his sentences, claimed that it is the task of the country's schools, and not of the District Attorney, to keep athletics clean. In addition to Pennsylvania, the colleges named as guilty of over-emphasis are: Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A & M, Southern Methodist, Tennessee, and Kentucky...
Reversal. When McKinney stopped talking, Fair Dealers and Southern Democrats cheered. Next day McKinney tackled the gravest party scandal of all: he urged the President to see that all U.S. collectors of internal revenue are appointed through civil service instead of political pull. After listening to McKinney, Truman reversed his own stand of three weeks earlier, announced that he would ask Congress to enact the civil-service proposal into law next January...
...frocked Mme. de Siva. Said he: "It won't do, it won't do." She was too old to be Cinderella. "But the shoe fits," she cried. Officials took the shoes off her feet, edged her, barefoot, off the platform. While she protested: "It's a scandal. I'll call the police," they hurriedly shoehorned the size3 golden slippers on the feet of a 28-year-old stenographer named Huguette Granet. Huguette's prize: a pair of shoes with four-in.-high heels, in a larger size, her proper fit. For Madame Albane de Siva...
...story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel for the Senate small business committee, had lobbied for a $1,100,000 RFC loan to build a Miami hotel. After Steele's beat, Shaver quit his Senate job, and congressional investigators began to look into the latest RFC scandal (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Cornell administration's viewpoint was said to be as follows: The statement as it stands casts an unfair shadow on the athletic policies of the other schools, and the Big Three have set themselves on a pinnacle of purity. Considering the current scandal in athletics, the statement is certainly in order, but it is lamentable that it had to come so suddenly and unexpectedly, and from the Big Three only...