Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the No. 1 scandal in U. S. colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack...
...husband, at once sentimental and hard; a secretive man with his human share of stupidities and perplexities, his career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great...
Soviet newsorgans were crammed last week with a new scandal: the crimes committed by small Communist officials in carrying out locally the nationwide purge fathered by Joseph Stalin. Typical was the case of one Pavel P. Postishev, Communist leader in Kuybishev (formerly Samara). He was arraigned in the harshest terms by Pravda, "because he purged local Communists by tens and hundreds." Pravda added with frankness that Postishev committed such "excesses" in Kuybishev after he had been transferred thither from the Ukraine six months ago as "punishment for lack of political vigilance...
...friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys. The disciplinarian Post-Dispatch disagreed, so the result of his frequent protracted absences was inevitable, though long delayed. Tedious hours of poring over the finely printed technical...
...public generally, a Senate investigation means a scandal hunt. Last week, however, in the Senate Office Building in Washington began an investigation which seemed to have no particular scandal in mind: The subject was unemployment and the master of ceremonies was South Carolina's amiable Senator James F. Byrnes. Said he: "It is not the purpose of this committee to endeavor to show that either labor or capital deliberately brought about the present recession in business." As evidence of good intentions, Jimmy Byrnes pointed out that his committee had been appointed six months ago, before eco-nomic astrologers foresaw...