Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary sort of school, Mrs. Walter Thomas of Milstead, Ga. might not have found his letter so shocking. But little Louis is partially blind, and the school he goes to is the Academy for the Blind at Macon. Last week Louis' letter was causing quite a scandal in Georgia. "Mama," he had written, "they're beating us down here. Come...
...shaken every hand he can find from Buffalo Run to Pocomoke City. A third candidate, Thomas D'Alesandro, Democratic National Committeeman and mayor of Baltimore, announced his candidacy for governor last August, but slipped behind when his son was implicated in a teen-age vice scandal. Last week D'Alesandro withdrew from the race...
...snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from the faculty, the once elegant "Love Prof" drifted down to the Bowery, thereafter regaled fellow down & outers with barroom recitals of Kipling's Mandalay. He recently confessed: "I guess...
Last week the Prime Minister himself, U.S.-educated Kwame Nkrumah, the facile Twi tribesman whom Gold Coasters revere as "The Man," was summoned before a tribunal investigating malfeasance and graft. Scandal swirled around members of his Cabinet, and Nkrumah himself was hurt by it. From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering...
Still shaken by the Harry Dexter White scandal, the Democratic National Committee last week counterattacked. The White Case, said Deputy Chairman Clayton Fritchey, was nothing but a diversionary effort to cover up assorted Republican sins, including "a serious situation within the Justice Department itself." Part of that serious situation, Fritchey charged, was that the Department of Justice had 1) "tied the hands of the FBI in the investigation of an extremely big crime syndicate," 2) immediately fired the U.S. attorney when he busted up the syndicate anyway...