Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it unburied old skeletons of Republican scandal, President Hoover's dedication of the Harding memorial was the most politically costly event of the whole trip. Though the President met the issue squarely by declaring that Harding had been betrayed by his trusted friends, nevertheless the malodorous names of Albert Bacon Fall and Harry Micajah Daugherty bobbed up to be linked in headlines with his own. Daugherty, a trustee of the Harding Memorial Association, was present at the Marion ceremony, sat behind the President. Later a controversy arose as to whether President Hoover had greeted with a handshake...
...slavery is concerned, Liberia has now flung herself enthusiastically open to a League of Nations' tutelary commission, preferring that to one from the U. S. Little by little the slavery scandal is being hushed and ameliorated...
John Davison Rockefeller, astute nonogenarian with potent holdings in National City Bank, who reputedly advised the younger Stillman to resign the institution's presidency because of scandal ten years ago. Grandfather of the groom, he kept to his home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., sent his blessing...
Last week's story as it was developed through three front-page days was anything but a scandal: it was an idyl. Bride & Groom motored from courtroom to a cottage on the ocean at East Hampton, L. I. Thither, eventually, came troops of newsmen, including many oldtime baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten...
...stands as the President in whose administration occurred one of the most malodorous scandals in the country's history, a scandal whose oily trail led to the resignation under fire of a portion of his cabinet and the conviction of his Secretary of the Interior for taking a bribe from the same oil interests many of whose officials also fell under the penalty...