Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week silk manufacturers of Lyons denounced the Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France to promote an impossible policy of agricultural protection." The Cabinet's failure to fulfill its pledge to reduce the cost of living and growing public distrust of the Government as the Stavisky scandal continues to stink, made many Frenchmen turn last week with pleasure if not with serious contemplation to the spirited campaign of young, untainted "Dauphin" Henri...
...meddling in politics," he said, "no less than twelve cabinets have fallen and four Rumanian elections have followed on each other's heels. Mme Lupescu is responsible for almost every evil in the country. I suggest we should hold party meetings all over Rumania to clear up this scandal. Every Rumanian should receive a good example from the palace. Otherwise there is no sense in spending millions for priests and teachers...
...motley crowd of politicians, prostitutes, gangsters, detectives and hired editors who make up the cast of L'Affaire Stavisky, greatest political scandal since the War, no figure is more pathetic than that of Arlette Simon Stavisky, the once theatrically beautiful wife of the late swindler...
...scandal that never withers is Rumania's hardy perennial that munitions are sold in Bucharest on a strict basis of bribe-as-you-go. Disclosures of the week concerned the deal with Skoda, Czechoslovakia's Munitions Trust, which backfired when General Zika Popescu of the Royal Rumanian Army put a bullet through his brain (TIME, April 10, 1933). Just what had been at stake General Cihofhi of the Royal Ordnance Service volubly revealed to a Parliamentary committee last week...
...original order for a rate reduction was entered in 1923, but Illinois Bell promptly obtained an injunction. The case was not brought to trial until 1927. The City of Chicago in behalf of subscribers retained a bright young lawyer named Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...