Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bank deposit guarantee schemes have been tried in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington. They have invariably ended in failure and loss, if not in outright scandal and default. They have weakened the moral fibre of bankers and served chiefly as a temptation to bad banking. Honest banking has been penalized for dishonest banking...
...automobile accident to involve the traction company's lawyer. Mr. Calhoun. Of all Lawyer Stevens' machinations, this one is the most expert. He has Floppy jump in front of the car, gets a blonde into the back seat while Lawyer Calhoun steps out to investigate, threatens a scandal unless Lawyer Calhoun helps him free Mrs. Stevens. Later he congratulates Floppy on his performance of holding the bumper with one hand while smearing his face with imitation blood as the car slows down. Says Floppy: ''I thought it was adequate." The Nuisance is not an important...
...good friend Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, boss of New Jersey's Democracy, as guest last week in his big red brick house on the South Side. where he lives with his second wife and their three adopted children. Briefly in 1930 the breath of scandal touched Mayor Kelly. He was indicted for helping, according to the prosecutor, to graft $5,000,000 out of sewage disposal contracts let by the Sanitary District. Others were tried, but not Engineer Kelly, whose case was quietly quashed...
Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
Meanwhile the purest peace reigned in the palace of King Carol. No voice had risen to connect him in any way with the Skoda scandal, and his slack-chinned younger brother Prince Nicholas suddenly decided that a year and a half of morganatic marriage with svelte Jana Lucia Deletz was enough (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931,). Following the promptings of Queen Mother Marie he cast Jana aside last week, made peace with King Carol, arranged to return to Bucharest, resume his royal rank...