Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first instance you have put yourself on a level with the old Police Gazette in its palmiest days and in the second you have rivaled scandal-mongering old Town Topics when it was out looking for people to blackmail...
...Depression, the fear of a Nazi Mittel Europs, the agitation of Communists and the nagging of Royalists, the national ire aroused by the scandal, may give Doumergue a year or so. But the cards are stacked against him; only let France catch its breath and a new scandal, a blunder in judgment, will find a host of Deputies ready for a new "calculation" to form a new Cabinet, and another, and another. Only when France gives her Premier the club of Dissolution will the Deputies coalesce into two great parties, one to criticize and one to lead--to formulate...
...Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place this remark in juxtaposition with Judge Lescouvé's declaration before the Parliamentary commission." Never until Stavisky was a breath of scandal attached to the long, unexciting career of Georges Pressard as a criminal lawyer and provincial judge. Called before the investigating commission last week he maintained stoutly that he never knew Stavisky or ever performed any favors for him. "On the death of Judge Prince I have no opinions," said...
Paralleling the Stavisky-rooted murder of Albert Prince, the great Caillaux-Calmette affair grew from Rochette roots. Because Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro waged a bitter campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, largely for his alleged part in the Rochette scandal, Mme Caillaux walked into Figaro's office and shot Editor Calmette dead...
Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...