Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no faintest hint of scandal, the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry are now said to have "seduced" Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. It is they who enticed the silver-haired Scot out of dingy surroundings in which he moved even three years ago, launched him in Mayfair's glittering swim...
...Government can find no stable majority, if the only logical move is to order dissolution and an election on the issue at stake?then the Government can go hang. It has, amid a mounting welter of corruption that produced the Stavisky Scandal (TIME, Jan. 15), the bloody riots in the Place de la Concorde (TIME, Feb. 12) and the reluctant emergence from retirement of ex-President Doumergue as Premier (TIME, Feb. 19) to "save France...
Paris, Nov. 9--A new financial scandal, involving a hundred million francs (about $6,600,000), broke out today upon a Paris still feeling the after-effects of the Stavisky affair...
...houses of Parliament. So long as the problems which had to be dealt with by such an assembly were relatively simple, a certain amount of inefficiency was the price that was willingly paid for liberty. But the financial crisis, the critical situation of foreign affairs, the Stavisky scandal, have raised problems with which such a Parliament is unfitted to deal. Rehabilitation has to be concentrated in a power capable of effective action in order that decisions can be made quickly. Lacking such executive leadership, the country has blundered from one crisis to another, never able to maintain a continuous domestic...
...Eureka !" cried the Republican Defense League. Blushing fiery red Minister of the Interior Yannopulos and the Chief of Police resigned. Premier Tsaldaris promptly declared the Republican Defense League an illegal organization. Statesman Venizelos remained in Crete, smiling. He has been Premier eight times. The new-scandal of last week will help him stage another comeback...