Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangled in red tape at birth." The Daily Express exclaimed: "Soon we will need leaflet raids on Britain to tell our own people how the War is going!" Thoroughly disgusted, the National Union of Journalists uttered a resolution: "Under present conditions the Ministry is both a national scandal and a national danger...
...When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...
...violate the Federal "hot oil" law restricting petroleum production. Alone of the Big Three, Bob Maestri is unindicted.*He still runs New Orleans and Louisiana (through Huey's little brother Earl, who became Governor when Dick Leche resigned). Accustomed to the rise-and the subsiding-of political scandal's flood, Louisianans concede Boss Maestri an excellent chance to get Earl Kemp Long re-elected next January, keep the shell-shocked but undestroyed Long machine intact...
Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...
...urging specific remedies. Such problems as child labor, cooperatives, housing, minimum wages, are examples . . . where the Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short of a scandal to find Churches standing out against labor unions on the plea that all Church earnings go to benevolent causes...