Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet of goateed Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo was all but impotent, its members amounting to little more than messenger boys for the bosses of eight bickering political parties. Grafting had become so much of a public scandal that last week Indonesia's Attorney General brought charges against Foreign Minister Roeslan Abdulgani, whom the press accused of having accepted $130,000 in bribes...
...piece of work from another, provided both subscribe to the same moral code. A vulgar virgin is as good as a sensitively conceived virgin; the only thing that matters is that it is a virgin." The "generally low taste" of U.S. Catholics, according to Kerr, "has been a minor scandal for quite a time...
...Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., bought a string of racehorses (his Zev won the 1923 Kentucky Derby), in 1922 leased the Navy's Teapot Dome oil reserve in Wyoming from Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall; in Pasadena, Calif. Buoyant Harry Sinclair survived when Teapot Dome blew up in a scandal (he was acquitted in 1928 of conspiracy with Fall, served six and a half months for refusing to answer Senate investigators, having his jurors shadowed). went right on making millions, until 1949 actively controlled Sinclair Oil Corp. (total 1955 assets...
...Illinois' Republican Governor Billy Stratton, carrying the deadly weight of the embezzlement scandal in the state auditor's office, got boxed into a corner throughout most of the hours of vote-counting, barely brushed through on late downstate returns to win over Chicago Judge Richard Austin...
...bathtub, and U.S. tabloid journalism was in its bawling, irresponsible infancy. Worst of all, more brazen even than the brassy era it covered, was Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's sexsational New York Evening Graphic. Quickly dubbed the 'PornoGraphic, the paper assaulted the town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor...