Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation of the New York Stock Exchange-an investigation conducted by a committee consisting of Professor John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., and Arthur Dean of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. Their purpose: not to drag scandal to public view but to see how the Exchange's merits balance its demerits, to recommend under what form it should be allowed to continue to exist...
...DEVIL'S DEN-Lawrence Saunders -Covici, Friede ($2). Murder in Connecticut's swank art colony; investigation by ex-Fireman Lundberg and friend stirs up scandal but exposes the criminal...
...spiced their moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...
Proudest man in Australia last week was tousle-haired Premier Joseph Aloysiu Lyons. When he took office 22 month? ago Australia's finances were an Empire scandal. Commonwealth bonds were on the verge of interest default. Joe Lyons, who had only recently emerged from the political wilds of Tasmania, formed a Cabinet and pulled in his belt. Things looked better last year, and last week he had real news. Reading his budget speech before the House of Representatives, he announced that the Commonwealth had, instead of an estimated deficit of ?1,302,000, a surplus...
...Arizona newsreaders it might have seemed that the real "Arizona scandal" was the fact that an outside newspaper could advertise for a week in advance a local news sensation without danger of having its scoop spoiled by local courage and enterprise. Leading Arizona papers are Phoenix's two dailies, the Republic and the Gazette, owned by the same company...