Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East St. Louis, Ill., is St. Louis' Hoboken, a riveredge district thick with foundries, chemical plants, railroad yards. Many mules are sold there and, periodically, there is a scandal. Last week's scandal concerned Addison J. Throop, an elderly printer and collector of Indian relics who became chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Tax Review in 1928 "when Alfred E. Smith had a great following and I was elected by a fluke...
...entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only the de Arrizola scandal but all the still earlier rumors of Alfonso's illegitimacy which even the growth of his super-Habsburg jaw never entirely obliterated...
...surprise, Rumania last week had a scandal in which King Carol had no part. In 1930 Rumania had a war scare over Soviet Russian machinations in Bessarabia (TIME, March 3, 1930), rushed to buy guns and ammunition. A French firm offered to supply them for $45,000,000. Instead Rumania bought the supplies from Czechoslovakia's great munitions firm, Skoda,* for $90,000,000. France, big sister of both Rumania and Czechoslovakia, was surprised and hurt...
...lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters saying the accusations were intolerable, that...
Rumanians expect scandal, sometimes murder, never suicide. Popescu's act shocked the country and Premier Vaida-Voevod's Cabinet was suddenly very rocky. Rattled Army men began "exposing" one another...