Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political enemies. Prisons are good copy for the sensational journalist; the common-place of any prison life, skillfully stated, can easily assume the character of a public scandal. Mr. Osborne was driven from Sing Sing by just such an attack, and although every charge made against him was publicly disproved, he found it impossible to remain at his post...
While Lindbergh is not in any way implicated in the scandal it is hardly possible to believe that he was not pretty well aware of what was going on, for he was high in the councils of a company which is one of the chief offenders. Moreover, he is financially interested in the companies which are affected by the new order, and his great yen for justice in this case is all too intimately connected with his pocketbook. Apparently, he expected--somewhat naively, one is inclined to think--that any telegram from him would simply be assumed to proceed from...
Until the breaking of the Stavisky scandal, never a doubt was cast on Jean Chiappe's honesty. No direct evidence has yet been produced, but he did know Alex Stavisky well enough to sit in his box at a theatre. Socialists yelled for his head. Premier Daladier demanded his resignation, but as a face-saver offered him the Governor Generalship of Morocco. The telephone connection was very bad. "Mon Dieu!" cried Premier Daladier to the Cabinet Members in his office, "he refuses and says he will be in the street tonight." The Cabinet decided that Chiappe was going...
...Director of the State-supported Comedic Frangaise. M. Fabre has run the Comédie since 1915, and like Jean Chiappe is dearly beloved by his underlings. His offense last week was producing a really popular play in his musty old theatre. Almost as soon as the Stavisky scandal broke Emile Fabre announced a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The house was packed. Every reference to corruption in high office was greeted with roars of applause. It seemed a pity to turn good money from the box office, but the Government thought otherwise. Emile Fabre was removed overnight...
...move made by M. Doumergue to transfer interest in the domestic situation in France to the realm of foreign affairs. Doumergue has seized upon the Austrian-German question as the one most likely to arcuse interest in France which would be sufficient to divert public opinion from the Stavisky scandal. For years this has been a time honored method in French politics; unfortunately, it has been generally unsuccessful; in 1830 it came too late to avert the collapse of the monarchy, and in 1840 it merely caused the fall of the government and came near to starting a general European...