Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the eyes of all Canada were turned on Hudson's Bay Co. as a Parliamentary Committee on Mass Buying settled down in Ottawa to investigate the business of the oldest company in North America. Untainted by scandal, the probe was part of Parliament's program for determining the extent and causes of retail price spreads throughout the Dominion. Hudson's Bay Co. was only one of several on the examination table, but because it today controls many of the largest department stores in Canada, it. was easily the most important. At that, the probe...
...Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn...
...Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City he subsequently made his peace with Hoover. When the Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled the G. O. P. to oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction...
...Collector of Internal Revenue Horatio Johnson Abbott of Detroit was out of Government service. Thus the President gave a newsworthy answer not only to newshawks but also to scores of political wiseacres. For months quidnuncs have been privately intimating that the Roosevelt Administration was headed into a big patronage scandal. Before Secretary Morgenthau reported to the President last week he called to Washington Internal Revenue Collector Abbott, who also happens to be Demo-cratic National Committeeman from Michigan. Last August National Chairman Farley tucked Committeeman Abbott away into the comfortable berth of an Internal Revenue collectorship. Good Mixer Abbott...
...arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week...