Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...decade ago the Senate Public Lands Committee was hunting official corruption. Scandal was in the air and Senator Walsh was out to prove by concrete facts an ugly hook-up between the oil business and the U. S. Government. Last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had no such tangible mission. It was probing the whole intricate subject of private banking, with the House of Morgan as Exhibit A. Against that firm was no specific charge of wrongdoing. Official corruption was not even hinted. Unquestioned was the personal honesty of its 20 partners. Yet the House of Morgan...
...that office where he was the principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business and thereby learned the shady side of the brokerage business. He sent State Superintendent of Banks Frank Warder to Sing Sing for taking bribes in the City Trust Co. scandal. He convicted Anti-Saloon Leaguer William H. Anderson of forgery. He prosecuted bail bond racketeers, crooked milk inspectors, big-time thugs-with 80% convictions. He was in charge of the District Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie ("Dot King") Keenan, Broadway "sweetie," was murdered. For days...
Having been in office three months, the Roosevelt Administration last week blundered into what Republicans tried to whip up as its first "scandal." At the demand of Wyoming's Republican Carey the Senate Military Affairs Committee began to investigate the Civilian Conservation Corps' purchase of toilet kits for jobless workers-in-the-woods...
...House of Morgan. Also according to formula behaved the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers. Their formula being "liberalism." none must excel them in excoriation of unphilanthropic wealth. Their lead hound, the New York World Telegram, soon turned the predictable "revelations" of the investigation into a "shocking" scandal...