Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loud cries of "Outrage!" "Scandal!" went up in the Press at the House's failure to economize on veterans expenses. The technical defense was that no cuts could be made until the substantive laws which required this total appropriation had been modified...
Centrist Deputies vainly cried "Shame!" and "Scandal!" Speaker Kerrl drew cheers from Fascist and Nationalist Deputies by shouting: "Today is the 62nd anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles! ... By my order the Imperial flag now flies above this chamber. Glory to the old flag, and to the House of Hohenzollern, glory...
...Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood by her man when scandal broke him and sent him to jail, waited for his release, got ready to start all over again with...
...bawdy prime. In its place sprouted a crop of nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...
...when Stevens-controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co. tumbled into receivership with $150,000,000 in policies and $13,000,000 in Stevens-owned hotel mortgages frozen tight in its portfolio, the Press let the Stevenses pretty much alone. Since then their financial doings have blossomed into a major Chicago scandal. Last week auditors told the receiver just how much these doings had cost Illinois Life-$12,456,409, about one-third its assets...