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Word: scandalous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally AAA approved a resolution providing $150,000 for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of processors' profits -a scandal hunt which might do much to discourage suits to prevent the collection of processing taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Acreage & Allies | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...vice versa, each group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist and his nondescript girl guide but potent Comrade Sergei Meshki, for years Chief of Intourist in Moscow and widely credited with being an official of the OGPU Spy Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sultanesque Sergei | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...bewildered bride was too humiliated to confide in anyone, would not hurt her strict Philadelphia parents with the scandal of a divorce. Devoted and attentive in public, Lehr made her a social favorite. They took part in social life during its most ostentatious period, attended the Harriman ball that cost $100,000, the $200,000 James Hyde ball that became a great scandal, caused Hyde's disgrace. For that ball Sherry's was made over by Stanford White as a reproduction of the court of Louis XVI; Réjane was imported from France to recite Racine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Record of the Rich | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling the Army, Zola fled to England. By then I'affaire Dreyfus had aroused world interest, caused a national scandal which split all France into opposing camps, Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. After four years of solitary confinement and torture, Captain Dreyfus, white-haired at 39, was brought back from Devil's Island, tried again, re-convicted. Pardoned by the President in 1900, he was completely vindicated in 1906, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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