Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unappeased by denials, counter-charges and figures, Nominee Landon cried at Cleveland that night: "Everybody knows there is too much politics in relief. This has become a national scandal. The evidence of this playing of politics has been supported by documented and sworn testimony. . . . This probably explains why the Administration has deliberately kept the country in the dark...
Undoubtedly the controversy waged this week over football players and the payment of tutoring school bills has been exaggerated far out of its natural proportion. More arguing over whether the H.A.A. is at present paying the bills is motivated simply by vindictiveness or love of scandal. The facts are these: the H.A.A. has in the past indirectly rewarded with free tickets the tutoring schools for tutoring athletes; this practice has now been stopped...
...lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when an accident makes it unmistakably clear that his wife would rather see him accused of murder than let herself be touched by a scandal. When it is over. Harriet seems unlikely to recover from her pain at the discovery that those who live to themselves are left to themselves...
Rounding out the second month of its methodical exploratory tour of the U. S. investment trust business ordered by Congress, the Securities & Exchange Commission figuratively arrived last week in Boston. In so doing, it unearthed not one whiff of scandal, received for a change an instructive lesson in safe money management...
...past experience carrys any weight, scandal at Harvard has been more restricted than a university of this size has any right to expect. The decency of most of the young ladies attending Harvard functions, along with a happy regard for the "time-and-place-for-that-sort-of-thing" doctrine, has kept the social life here in better taste than that of any other university of comparable size and diversity...