Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called New York & The Sea bury Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system" in terms of the spiciest testimony from last year's scandal hunt, let ex-Mayor "Jimmy" Walker damn himself out of his own mouth and left young heads to puzzle over the fortunes party workers collected in tin boxes...
...State politics. With his able son Luke Jr. who is also fighting extradition and a heavy fine, he ran the Nashville Tennesseeans (morning & evening), the Knoxville Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal. Since 1930, when the financial dream-empire of Promoter Caldwell crashed into ruin and scandal, Col. Lea has lost all his newspapers. Last week the onetime publisher made a first move to get back into his old field by announcing plans for a new paper, the Nashville Free Press His wife & son were to be the incorporators...
Stevens. Chicago's and the world's biggest hotel, the Stevens (3,000 rooms, 3,000 baths), is not only in receivership but the centre of a major financial scandal. Built by James W. Stevens & family, it was largely financed by Stevens-controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co. which went to the wall as a result. And if there is any one thing beside the Depression that Chicago hotelmen can blame for their many, many woes, it was the building of this "biggest" hotel...
Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...
Second statement came from Morgan Partner Russell Cornell Leffingwell. The Senate investigators were supposed to be engaged not in a scandal hunt but in an effort to find out how the financial system of the U. S. can be improved. Mr. Leffingwell's statement was aimed at this obscured point. Coming at any less exciting time, it would undoubtedly have been front-page news. His points...