Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John is nominated for Governor. When he gives a grand reception and one of the guests is a handsome brunette named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly it turns out that Mary has known about it all along. The scandal fails to disturb, for more than a moment, John's happy relations with his wife, fails even to disrupt his campaign for Governor. He has won it, been elected to the U. S. Senate and served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their...
...Harriman was one of the directors and a large stockholder. After his death the $100,000,000 estate of the great Widow Harriman bought more of the bank's stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent $100,000 to the United Mine Workers. The American Federationist (labor paper) stated apropos Joe Harriman: ''There are constructive minds and honorable characters in all walks...
...wish to protest," said each man simply, "against what I consider the Government's failure to deal adequately with the scandal of income tax evasion by Japan's rich...
...taken charge of the bank after two presidents had been scrapped in quick succession: Frank A. Vanderlip who backed Russia's Kerensky and James Alexander Stillman, who had inherited a large share of the bank's stock but who was overwhelmed by personal scandal soon after assuming the presidency. Charlie Mitchell almost immediately restored the bank's morale and soon made it the best in Wall Street. A man's man, strong and courageous, his record was clear ever since that day when, a junior at Amherst, he learned that his father's business...
...weekend, the issue of banking morality and responsibility. With one other angle: bankers high & low throughout the land, while not condoning the acts of 1929, loudly proclaimed that last week the greater villains were U. S. Senators who would risk the credit of the U. S. by putting scandal into the headlines when Confidence had already received body-blows at St. Louis (TIME, Jan. 23), New Orleans (TIME, Feb. 13), Michigan (TIME, Feb. 20) and in many another state...