Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens went to the polls and voted to have a city manager instead of their picturesque Mayor J. Waddy ("Hot Dog") Tate. Thus on May 1 they will join Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester (N. Y.), and 392 managerized U. S. cities where at present there is no major civic scandal. Grinning Mayor Tate was famed for his vote-getting campaign stunt of free hotdogs, promises of free donkeyrides for children, free City Hall sitting for bums, free potted plants for funerals. Long had he fought the manager-movement, contending that under such a system the Plain People who elected him would...
...Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with...
...people and said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked him for his evidence. He replied last week...
...fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter contained the germ of another national Oil Scandal...
...Angeles may have its Aimee Semple McPherson, and it may have its Bob Shuler, and it may have a lot of other disagreeable personages and things, through which rank publicity gains its way into lip-licking scandal sheets, but why the stab about Gaylord Wilshire in your issue...