Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the closing of Tax Scandals of 1951-52, it might have been thought that Truman & Co.'s Bureau of Internal Revenue had been mined out as a source of high-grade show material. But last week a House Ways & Means Subcommittee headed by New Jersey's Robert W. Kean stuck an investigative spade into the same rich lode and dug up not only a fresh scandal but a new feature character...
Sensing a national scandal, President Vargas abandoned his protégé, ordered Wainer's radio station closed down got ready to shut Ultima Hora too. Characteristically, Sammy devoted the station's last hours to heart-rending appeals to Vargas, interspersed with plugs for Ultima Hora. Then Sammy gave in, sold his stock at half-price (for $15,000), and resigned as editor and publisher...
...Tells the Truth." He never lost an election. For two of his six years in the state house of representatives, he was speaker; for both of his two years in the state senate, he was senate president. In 1930, when he was governor, Tobey uncovered a scandal (the widespread practice of corporal punishment) in a New Hampshire asylum for delinquent girls and deposed the institution's board chairman. In 1933 he went to Congress, moved up to the Senate in 1939. When Senator Tobey blocked the appointment of Oilman Edwin Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy, Harry Truman...
Steadfast Devotion. The Chancellor hoped in vain. The gossip grew even louder (it has assumed "the shape of scandal," protested the stately London Times). And it seemed likely to continue for months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that...
Composer George Antheil, 53, onetime bad boy of modern music, no longer scores compositions for mechanical pianos and fire sirens, and has created no major musical scandal since his Ballet Méchanique nearly panicked Carnegie Hall in 1927.* Instead, he has been quietly sitting in his Los Angeles home, industriously turning out music that is remarkably easy to listen to. Last week he was on hand for the opening of his third opera, Volpone, in Manhattan's minuscule Cherry Lane Theater...