Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current attempt of Midwestern Republican Congressmen to get Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson fired from his job, the G.O.P. is faced with 1) a scandal, 2) a dilemma, and 3) a challenge...
...scandal: the reigning farm price-support program that costs the U.S. nearly $5 billion a year, while it makes worse the situation it pretends to cure, distorts the normal workings of agricultural economics, corrupts farmers, and shows in nearly every way that it is obsolete in the age of new farm technology (TIME...
...dilemma: the fact that Ezra Benson, in campaigning for reforms that are the most tentative steps toward correcting the scandal (e.g., lowering minimum price supports from 75% of parity to 60%), has become such a convenient political target that Midwestern Republicans would like to dump him before election time. Two of the dump-Benson Congressmen, Nebraska's A. L. (for Arthur Lewis) Miller and Phil Weaver, had the gall to go to the President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern...
...made in the picture: the political repercussions of the affair are scarcely suggested, and the fateful social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives on the screen is no more than a scandal-but then it is a French scandal, and when it comes to making an exquisite mess of things, nobody can come near the nation that invented the galantine de poulet...
...this single piece of evidence, Dreyfus is arrested and charged with espionage. To avoid the scandal of a trial, which would involve a public admission that the General Staff itself had been corrupted by the Germans, the army tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently...