Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington). It was left operating 38 vessels on four small lines (American Pioneer, America France, American Republics, American Hampton Roads). Though always under fire for extravagance in its attempt to create a U. S. Merchant Marine, the Shipping Board closed its 17-year career without a major scandal and its functions were shifted to Ihe Department of Commerce...
...insurance companies which would rather pay a "reward" of 40? on the dollar for the bonds than stand the full loss covered by their policies. Repurchase of loot from the famed $1,000,000 Grand National Bank robbery in St. Louis two years ago broke a first-class scandal involving many a St. Louis lawyer, businessman and politician...
Only outside Japan was the late Marshal's promotion to be virtual viceroy of Manchukuo something of a scandal. As Director of Military Education he was held by many Japanese at least partially responsible for the assassination of Premier Ki Inukai by petty naval officers and cadets (see col. 2). Since this assassination was considered "patriotic," General Muto, though he resigned as Director of Military Education was soon promoted to the Supreme War Council, later sent to rule Manchukuo and created marshal. Reverently last week Japanese read what they were told was the last poem composed by Marshal Muto...
...good man of the Oklahoma Senate's resolution. Promoter and politician, he was forceful, clever, no better and no worse than the Oklahoma of his day. His political opponents charged him with all manner of crime and corruption, thus building up in the public prints the belief that scandal tainted his administration. Impeachment proceedings were started against four of his six successors, two of whom were removed from office. An attack by President Theodore Roosevelt on his honesty drove Haskell out as Democratic national treasurer. On rechecking, TIME finds its account of Haskell's career substantially correct with...
Last week Death, as it must to all men, came to feeble, impoverished Charles Nathaniel Haskell, 73, in a room in Okla homa City's Skirvin Hotel. He had been ill with pneumonia less than 24 hours. In 1912, Governor Haskell, already scandal-tainted (as were to be most of his successors), celebrated the end of his term by borrowing money from the State to go on a vacation. The next Oklahomans heard of him, he and his family had settled down to a life of wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having...