Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising a $350,000 war chest to fight the scandal magazines...
...primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first uncovered the scandal (TIME, June 4), the Journal has never once admitted the existence of a Teamster plot to control law enforcement. Instead. the Journal has scoffed that the Oregonian is interested chiefly in "self-glorification,'' and therefore has exaggerated its charges of Teamster involvement in the ruckus over rackets - which...
Maybe it all began with the Monty Woolley scandal of 1949. That was when the HDC's highly successful Boston production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Woolley in the title role, came to a disastrous end by the Club's business manager making off with the ten thousand dollar ticket receipts. That enterprising young man has never been seen since, and neither have the comfortably low admission prices for Harvard drama of that...
...behalf of many young seekers of truth, let me thank Mr. Denis Barber ('60) for his uncovering of the horrendous scandal that pollutes our student body. Let me also request that you withhold my name, as I do not wish publicity but only opportunity to express deepest gratitude to the Editor of the Yardling for bringing this abominable crisis, this heinous betrayal of our democratic rights and duties, to the attention of Fair Harvard. May I also wish Mr. Barber the best of luck in attaining more of what many of his compatriots feel he seeks--publicity. Certainly we must...
Spurred by this hint of scandal, the new administration pressed on to discover, as it explained in, last week's communique, that the costly submarines "were contracted for by direct order of ... Vice-Admiral Roque Saldias without the approval of the technical bodies of the Ministry of the Navy." La Prensa commented that "notwithstanding the gravity of these charges, the vice-admiral has so far chosen to maintain, absolute silence about them, although it is being charged that he preferred the submarines because of the juicy commissions...