Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve players or former players from New York City schools including l.I.U. N.Y.U., and C.C.N.Y., were indicted yesterday in the basketball fix scandal cases...
...Pearson had a Sunday punch. The Milwaukee Journal itself, said he, knew all the facts in the celebrated case of White House Aide General Vaughan and the deepfreeze scandal (TIME, July 4, 1949 et seq.) and was "afraid" to print it. Instead, it passed the story on to Congressmen to investigate. When Pearson picked up the trail in Washington, he risked libel and printed as much of the story as he could get. Said Pearson: "If Mr. Ferguson's paper had published and not banned columns, they would have published the story of General Vaughan...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. (TIME, March 5). The President, he told the Senators, had telephoned him last month to warn that the White House "had the goods on a great many" Congressmen who had taken fees for influencing RFC loans. This sounded like either the makings of a first-rate scandal or a brazen attempt to head off the congressional investigation, and Tobey hounded the White House for proof. Three weeks later, he said, the President called back to admit he had no such proof...
...under chiefs with whom he did not wholly agree. He and Roosevelt clashed on global strategy for World War II. The fact that he differed with Roosevelt was well known. MacArthur, however, fought a highly satisfactory war within Roosevelt's overall strategy, and the disagreement never became a scandal. The MacArthur-Truman scandal grew out of the fact that MacArthur's view on the Korean war was firmly stated and well-known while Truman's view was still a matter of hot debate among the President's advisers...
Valid church art or not, Richier's sculpture was easily the most original work at Assy. The influential Paris weekly, Arts, protested its removal as being "too categoric and too late; it justly provokes scandal and nothing can justify adhesion to the ideas defended by the partisans of mediocre art, by those who refuse the church the possibility of finding the means of expression our times demand...