Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal duke, a scheming mistress, a scandal that shakes the House of Commons-in other words, all that Du Maurier fans need for a happy evening (TIME, June...
...which thrived on state funds, claimed that certificates of a $300,000 state deposit were forged. Apparently Hoffman had embezzled $300,000 in state funds to cover his takings, but that was not all. Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary Gindhart Roebling (whose late husband's family built the Brooklyn Bridge). This enabled her bank to earn...
Exonerated because her victim has gallantly last-gasped that it was all an accident, Shelley is nevertheless thrown out of work by the scandal. "The main thing wrong with the future." she broods, "is that it gets here so much sooner than it used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing...
...tracks.'' One Texas editor, said Isaacs, "in a letter to me, said that one of the best names in the oil industry has several reporters on each paper in a certain town on his enterprises' payroll." In Houston three reporters were employed by the scandal-ridden housing authority and paid $75 a month each to write press releases. When Isaacs was managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times, he put a stop to the practice of letting news photographers take wedding pictures for a fee. "The idea got around that you had to employ...
...Deal in depression-ridden 1934 to encourage housing loans by insuring mortgages. Not only has FHA helped millions build and repair their homes; it has not cost taxpayers a cent, even made $91.9 million last year. President Eisenhower asked Congress to expand and strengthen the housing program. But when scandal suddenly broke out in the FHA last April, congressional clamor arose for safeguards. Now, under the guise of cleaning up FHA, Congress is falling short on Eisenhower's housing program...