Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched between two black-gowned barristers acting temporarily as judges, Sir Samuel Lowry Porter sat in his own courtroom, King's Bench No. i, not to try a criminal case, but to act as a court of inquiry in a scandal that for a time threatened last week to upset the British Cabinet...
...senior partner is the uncle of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken out $20,000 worth of income tax insurance on behalf of an advertising agent named Alfred Bates. Alfred Bates was one of Jim Thomas' most intimate friends. Another Thomas intimate is Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative M. P., theatrical producer and insurance underwriter...
...rivalry between Militarist Starhemberg and Civilian Schuschnigg reached a near climax with the Prince's attempt to wreck the Chancellor's Cabinet through the Phönix-Wien insurance scandal (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Politically it was a squib. More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal...
...fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have as Chief Executive". Unfortunately Mr. Bowker is too optimistic, since Mr. Curley's whole career in politics had been marred by many incidents of such nature. The unpleasant breath of scandal has touched him often, but yet many voters still have failed to realize the character of their Governor, or to do anything about...