Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost immediately becomes involved with pianos and men, both of which she has sworn not to touch for some time. She has a violent affair with a sombrely pompous Fascist, whose physical charm temporarily overcomes her common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier flame, whose sense of humor more nearly flatters hers...
...record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...
...which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...
...with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department the bribe scandal had occurred. By no means in disgrace, venerable Mr. Takahashi was able to slip in as the new Finance Minister his devoted henchman Mr. Sadanobu Fujii...
...Meanwhile last week "hot oil" was burning the political hides of some worthy citizens of Texas. Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson announced that she would call a special session of the State legislature if "hot oil" production was not stopped. What helped provoke her threat was a minor scandal in the Texas Railroad Commission. Six weeks ago the Commission selected as its proration officer to stop "hot oil" shipments, a 56-year-old engineer named Richard Denny Parker. Last week Mr. Parker resigned just before two of the commissioners signed an order for his dismissal on the grounds that under...