Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major catastrophe. Its treasury was practically empty. It had overdrawn its bank balance by $7,000,000. It was on the brink of defaulting on its public debt.* Bankruptcy threatened to close its schools, turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor...
Berlin has had no Oberbürgermeister for the past five months, so long has it taken to liquidate the scandal of her last Lord Mayor, Gustav Boess, who resigned, although technically vindicated, after a trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
...party, especially since all those concerned are men of exceptional ability in their field. Whether or not Fokker's criticism of Byrd will prove justified remains to be seen. As a general rule, however, deprecation of this kind does more harm than good, providing the press with welcome scandal, and jarring considerably that hazy quantity known as public confidence...
Plainly the Superintendent's cautious utterance was inspired by Mr. Gandhi's statement that he would not wear trousers while calling on King George and Queen Mary (TIME, April 13). But the scandal of what correspondents called "Gandhi's gossamer loin cloth" had assumed such world proportions last week that sensible St. Gandhi made an amplifying statement on the matter...
...HUSBANDS Go-About a small-town lady who goes to Europe, but not too far. FIVE STAR FINAL-Internal workings of a scandal sheet. GIVE ME YESTERDAY-A. A. Milne demonstrates that Success is not much fun. GRAND HOTEL-A striking and ambitious production, depicting a number of lives swept together for a short time in a German hotel. MIRACLE AT VERDUN-What might happen if the eight million War dead rose. ONCE IN A LIFETIME-Hilarious nose-thumbing at moviedom. THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET- Katherine Cornell. THE GREEN PASTURES-If the Lord were a colored preacher; if Gabriel...