Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Charles Evans Hughes should go before a Senate investigating committee indirectly to charge Tammany District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain with responsibility for the disappearance of Judge Crater, it would be of more than passing interest. So it was in Paris. Before the Parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal came the holder of the highest judicial post in France, Judge Théodore Lescouvé. First President of the Court of Cassation, to tell what he knew about Stavisky, what he knew in particular about the murder of his colleague Albert Prince (TIME, March...
Proud of his 52 years in the Secret Service, proud that, since its organization in 1861, his secret police system has never had a scandal. Chief Moran is the one man in the U. S. who can, by law, boss the President. He recalls that Woodrow Wilson bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
Once again last week the indefatigable Paris-Soir produced a first-rate scandal which, like last winter's government-inspired international spy scare (TIME, March 26, April 2), distracted Frenchmen from the malodorous Stavisky scandal. The Soir's story...
...After a party at the Divers', Rosemary begins to realize there is something strange about Nicole and her relations with Dick. They all go up to Paris together where Dick falls in love with Rosemary. But before anything can happen Abe North involves them all in a drunken scandal, Nicole has a breakdown, and the Divers go back to the Riviera alone...
...covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...