Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dragged to the stand to revive an even more ancient scandal was Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler, Elliott Speer's 75-year-old predecessor. During Dr. Cutler's regime Cashier Norton was on such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully...
...nothing new for Tammany. Fusion mayors were elected before, about once in a generation, and on the whole their election was all to Tammany's advantage. After the city had been run to the verge of bankruptcy where there was little profit left in running it and scandal was getting knee deep, it paid to let a Fusion mayor clean house and undertake the unpopular duty of raising taxes and cutting expenses until the city was once more a profitable institution for Tammany to run. And no Fusion mayor was ever reelected...
...Cathedral and former Dean of Exeter Cathedral, Cathedral Close, a first novel which up to then had won only critics' praise, leaped suddenly into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate Cathedral Close a competent, well-characterized story giving a vivid authentic picture of an environment little less unique than English royalty...
That Camille Chautemps should today be Premier of France once more proves the old Paris saw that nothing can kill a statesman's career in this interesting country.* Lawyer Chautemps was politically assassinated, so it seemed, by purported revelations and much seeming evidence linking him with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful...
...bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought several old commodity firms to bankruptcy, cost the public many a million, landed Kings Bishirgian & Howeson in jail and London's pepper market in thorough disrepute (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935 & March 2, 1936). This scandal combined last year with a freight war (making it cheaper to ship pepper to the U. S. than to Europe) to steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London. For years the world's largest pepper user (30%), the U. S. then for the first time displaced...