Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Sunday Journal-American last week, Sports Editor Max Kase broke an exclusive story: "Another basketball scandal [is] on the verge of being blown wide open." Kase added that eight to ten men were being questioned, at least four of them "players from two outstanding Greater New York City teams." A few hours later, District Attorney Frank Hogan confirmed Kase's beat: he announced the arrest of players of the College of the City of New York and, later, of Long Island University (see SPORT...
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said yesterday that another of City College of New York's championship basketball stars, Floyd G. Layne, has admitted taking part in the 'fix scandal.' Layne confessed he received $2,500 in bribes and $500 in "bonuses." As a result, C.C.N.Y. quit basketball for the rest of the season...
...When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature of Communism (he is working up a Paris purge list against the day when his masters take over France), she shoots him, but merely wounds him. Fyodor is s.ent back to Russia to avoid a scandal, and Hydie gets ready to go back to the U.S. War is about to begin...
...Children. Close friends in both Washington and Independence, Mo. have a way of referring to Margaret's sudden eminence as "this thing"-much as though it were a crippling disease of childhood or a family scandal best left unmentioned. Perhaps they protest too much that everything is just the same as it was before the Truman family was translated...
Even though the supply of men and equipment quickly increased after V-J Day, Boston mayors continued the negotiations system. In 1945 and 1946 there was no bidding at all. In 1947, twelve out of fourteen contracts by-passed low bidders. When a city councillor threatened to make a scandal out of this, Mayor Curley promised to start a citywide incinerator system. But instead, the Public Works Commissioner allowed an 18 percent increase in costs...