Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long after these careful arrangements were made, the New Jersey G.O.P. was rocked by a full-blown scandal: the late Harold Hoffman, onetime (1935-37) Republican governor and later an appointed state official, had embezzled $300,000 while in office (TIME, June 28). The explosive revelation meant real trouble for every New Jersey Republican running this year, including Clifford Case...
...last week, as the scandal still simmered, it was announced that Hendrickson will be appointed to the federal bench (he turned down the ambassadorship to New Zealand). Loyal Partyman Hendrickson smiled broadly for the photographers, as well he might. Not many Republican politicians in New Jersey know exactly where they will stand after November, but Bob Hendrickson does...
Plenty of Trouble. One of the first troubles Stoddard had to face was a scandal involving the selection of the school system's telephone operators. In 1950 a grand jury began investigating charges that the operators' examinations were "rigged" to discriminate against Jews and Negroes. Though this investigation was eventually dropped, the board was soon faced with even graver charges involving its awarding of school contracts. The result: four of its members were either defeated in elections or removed from office...
When the Senate banking committee opened public hearings last week on chicanery in the Federal Housing Administration, it knew that it was tapping a rich vein of scandal and corruption. Estimates of excess windfall profits by dollar-grabbing contractors ranged from $100 million to $500 million. But no sooner did the hearings start than the committee ran into Fifth Amendment trouble...
...abrupt firing of Commissioner Guy T. O. Holly day - although he was not personally involved - preceded exposure of Washington's newest scandal...