Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first daily issues it exhorted its readers to vote against the recall of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key (TIME, March 28) because he had supported bond issues for Negro schools. In general its news policy is more conservative than others; it does not play up crime or scandal. First issues varied between six and eight pages including a page of incredibly crude comic strips...
...Sugar Scandal. To cap the crisis in Tokyo there broke half open last week the colossal scandal of Meiji Sugar Co. The police admitted, informally, that they dared not and did not propose to arrest the exceedingly prominent Japanese involved. They did arrest a former Deputy of the Minseito (Opposition) Party, Ejiro Miyoshi, wealthy publisher...
...revealed that when Ethel Barrymore appeared in Washington in The School for Scandal, Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut invited her and Alice Roosevelt Longworth to luncheon, forgot to appear...
...formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with wit. For all his labors nothing but scandal ensued. Right down to the Treaty of Versailles, when Shaw pleaded for clemency towards Germany his utterances "had about as much effect on the proceedings ... as the buzzing of a London fly has on the meditations of a whale in Baffin...
Jean Jaures, Boiling with life and radiating brilliance, Aristide Briand, the son of parents in comfortable circumstances, rushed upon the stage of France as a Socialist lawyer. By his flaming words the proletariat of Nantes was aroused in 1894 to declare, prematurely, a general strike. Through the odious Dreyfus scandal Briand and Clemenceau fought beside the Master Socialist Jean Jaures for the freedom of Captain Dreyfus. Jaures remained irreconcilably radical. Taking the constructive road of compromise, both Clemenceau and Briand had become Premier of France before citizen Jean Jaures was assassinated July 31, 1914. Explicitly predicting and clearly foreseeing...