Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, however, Austin's merits go beyond that. Their hope of unseating Governor William G. Stratton lies chiefly in splattering him (although he was not involved) with the scandal in which former Republican State Auditor Orville E. Hodge succeeded in looting the treasury of more than $1,000,000 (TIME, July 30 et ante). To do this they are in need of a fierce and able prosecutor. In small (5 ft. 41n.), stern-faced Judge Austin, who assisted in prosecuting some notable crime cases in his years as assistant state's attorney, they hope they have found their...
...Illinois all summer the hot winds of scandal have blown hard at the Republican state administration. The blast blew Orville E. Hodge (TIME, July 30 et ante) from his perch as Republican state auditor and landed him a 12-to-15-year sentence in the state penitentiary for stealing more than $1,000,000 from the treasury through a warrant (state check) cashing dodge. Democratic leaders joyfully looked forward to using the Hodge case in their campaign to defeat Republican Governor William G. Stratton. Then, suddenly, the wind changed...
...aloofly adorable Madame Solario gives any hint of calamity, it is the enticing fragrance of a classic−almost old-fashioned−scandal. Twelve years before, in Paris, when she was barely 16, Natalia Solario (nee Ellen Harden) had been seduced by her stepfather. Her mother died of heartbreak as a consequence; her brother Eugene, after shooting and nearly killing his stepfather, had been shipped off by the family to South America. Natalia herself, swiftly married off to an obliging nobleman, had shed her spouse before coming to Como for the 1906 season...
...consistent liberal voting record in both House (1938-52) and Senate. A strong advocate of expanded foreign trade, he helped write this year's highway-construction bill, was a leading Democratic critic of the ill-fated Dixon-Yates contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities and the investigation was steered into a bipartisan blind alley). As a border-stater, Gore is acceptable to both North and South. One of Harriman...
...Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight of the "hardcore" refugees, Goedhart threatened to resign, crying, "It is a scandal that 65,000 refugees are still living in misery in a Europe bulging with prosperity." But good news reached him just before death struck: the U.S. House of Representatives voted a $2,000,000 appropriation for his 1956-57 emergency refugee fund...