Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still is a member of the nearly defunct Ku Klux Klan (TIME, Sept. 20), ceased to be a minor newspaper coup and became the prize political scandal of the year...
...eventual consequences of the" Black scandal would, it appeared, be more painful for Mr. Roosevelt than for his appointee. Sworn in secretly the day he received his commission, Justice Black had been measured for his robes before sailing for Europe. Last week, the Albany, N. Y. firm which specializes in judicial robes announced that Hugo Black's $90 costume of ebony French silk was ready to put on when Hugo Black returns. For the President the Black scandal came most embarrassingly at the time when he was not only proposing to reopen his campaign to put more sympathetic jurists...
...Rocky Mountain News, which has stanchly supported the Governor since news of the microphone got out, felt justified in printing the transcript in full was a fair indication of its contents. What Colorado has been waiting for for six months turned out to be not a juicy scandal but a feeble anticlimax. Garbled and often wholly unintelligible, the transcript gave Coloradans an interesting insight into the informality with which its elected officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson had entertained two young...
...spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this Capitol comment. Not gossipy but increasingly spicy, Preston Grovers column attempts humor, shuns scandal, specializes in harmless speculation...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...