Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both problems stemmed from a food-speculation scandal, in which an old friend of the President cornered markets in corn and beans with government help (TIME, Aug. 22). The government has reacted chiefly by stepping up police "security" measures, most of them aimed at curbing criticism...
...Democratic Party must continue to place its leadership in the hands of liberals of integrity, such as Adlai Stevenson. He listed the following four factors for the party to concentrate on: 1) to develop an enlightened liberal leadership in the South, 2) to make its urban machines free from scandal, 3) to raise money without selling out to "big cats," and 4) to keep the support of the racial minorities and labor groups...
...Only Takes Two. Sylvester seldom peddles nightclub scandal, but likes to take a good-natured poke at such cafe society figures as the interior decorator for neurotics who "specializes in furniture made of overwrought iron" and the Sultan's son who "drives a foreign elephant." He is an authority on functional (if fictitious) drinks, e.g., the Mambo cocktail ("two of these and you can't stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date...
...when Reporter Brunt tried to dig further into the case, he ran into a political stone wall. No official of the police or medical examiner's office would talk. Angrily, Brunt hustled to the office of Mayor Joseph Clark, charged that covering up the scandal "would cost the Democrats the election." Then Brunt went after District Attorney Samuel Dash, convinced him also that the cover-up would be a hot political issue. Two days later, Dash finally made it official: Doris Oestreicher died from an "illegal operation...
...first tried to join the primary producers in 1951, with the help of a $46 million federal loan. But when Columnist Drew Pearson dug up a scandal involving faulty ammunition allegedly made by Harvey in World War II (TIME, Oct. 1, 1951), the Government withdrew the loan, even though the charge was never proved. The Montana plant site and power supply that Harvey had lined up were taken over by Anaconda Aluminum Co., which opened a 60,000-ton plant there last month...