Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITAIN'S only comparable case in recent memory is the Stanley-Belcher scandal of 1948. John Belcher, a Labor M.P. and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, was found to have accepted a gold cigarette case, a suit of clothes, unlimited hospitality, and a week's vacation at a seaside resort from one Sydney Stanley. In return, Belcher helped Stanley around the government, helped his friends get licenses for construction work on a resort hotel and helped quash prosecution of a Stanley client for alleged shady dealings in a gambling pool...
...Korea without hope of conquest or dream of reward. But the war hung fire, neither won nor lost, and the aggressor remained unrepentant, ready to strike again. For the U.S., public morality abroad seemed to be easier than at home. It had been a summer of suspicion and scandal. The charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national chairmen of the nation's major parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last...
...wholesome thump of foot on pigskin and the blare of 25,000 brass bands sounded over the land. Yet in the autumn of 1951, even the appetite for football was soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...
Case History Shocked and shaken by the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), the faculty of William and Mary last week issued its own report on the college's bubbling athletic scandal. The statement was a bitter case history of a college caught in the snare of a big-time athletic program. Said the faculty...
...Digging. Pennsylvania's Republican Representative John P. Saylor thought the Harvey affair represented something more than a departmental slip. Before Congress he termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions...