Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After leaving Princeton, Morey went to Liberia for Rockefeller, and there picked up a scandal about Firestone and an acute case of malaria, according to his Harvard friends. Recuperating in Denmark and firm in the conviction that Rockefeller hires promising students merely to silence them, Morely invented his game, it is reported...
...Doesn't anything ever happen around here?" queried "Sis," a baby-blue-eyed blonde with a delightful Southern accent. When informed of the riots, Plan E controversy, and Hicks scandal, she squealed, "Oh, let's go to a riot...
Last week not Senator Sheppard's Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
...French novelists ever since Rabelais. But if the new generation of French novelists is to be trusted, Paris is austere compared with the provinces. In books like Guilloux's Bitter Victory, Romains' The Proud and the Meek, the small cities of the Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion thus...
While the P.O.U.M. affairs (see above) have been Scandal No. 1 in Leftist Spain, there has also been the affair of Malaga. The Leftist commander of the defenses of this rich Mediterranean port-taken in February 1937 by the Spanish Rightists with great swiftness and ease-was Colonel José Villalba, who has been sitting in prison ever since. He was suddenly put on trial last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain...