Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most sickening sound to any French politician last week was the word Stavisky. Sweeping together the best Cabinet he could, sly Premier Daladier planned to neutralize public opinion on the Stavisky scandal by asking the Chamber of Deputies to turn the matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet...
Apparently the mercurial French are still taking the evidence of corruption revealed in the Stavisky scandal much too seriously for the comfort of the Daladier government, which has been trying without much success to placate the aroused Paris citizenry--or mob, depending on one's point of view. Even the sacrifice of M. Chiappe, the Prefect of Police, has had little soothing effect; and sacrificing M. Chiappe demanded a good deal of courage, for the man possessed power out of all proportion to his official position. So the battle in the streets of Paris rages on but not so merrily...
...State of Kansas last week celebrated "Kansas Day" by bringing three of her high State officials to trial. Tom B. Boyd, former State Treasurer, was convicted by a jury of illegally removing $260,000 of bonds from the State Treasury in connection with the Finney bond forgery scandal (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.). Roland Boynton, Attorney General, impeached before the House, was acquitted by the State Senate of having conspired with Finney, and of having failed properly to investigate irregularities. When Kansas Day passed the case of Will J. French, State Auditor, also impeached as a result of the Finney...
When sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun appealed to gay and popular former President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue to emerge from retirement and come forward as a "nonpolitical" Premier, he declined, pleading his age (70). Chunky, canny Edouard Herriot was next best choice, but though untouched by the Stavisky scandal himself, he is president of the Radical Socialist Party which has been accused of accepting campaign contributions from Swindler Stavisky. Edouard Daladier therefore got the call, accepted. Though unwilling to make them, Gaston Doumergue suggested that drastic constitutional changes must be made in French Parliamentary practice...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...