Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune: "This bill is a package of dynamite quite sufficiently charged to wreck the Democratic party and blow up the Roosevelt administration. The opportunities for corruption are infinite. The appearance of favoritism, injustice and scandal is certain. . . . The sponsors of this bill are very naïve indeed if they think that a billion dollars in taxes can be levied upon necessities . . . without provoking violent resentment in the industrial sections of the country. . . . If this bill goes into effect, Mr. Roosevelt will be in for trouble compared with which...
Gossip of the week in Santiago concerned shrewd, rich Gustavo Ross, picked by President Alessandri to be Finance Minister in the new regime. Reputed to have been a "bear" speculator when the Chilean peso was falling. Don Gustavo is in bad odor. He owes his Finance Ministry, say scandal mongering Santiagans, to a strategic investment made eight years ago when enemies of the "Lion of Tarapaca" chased Senor Alessandri out of Chile and left him with exactly...
Recently Deputy Leon Nicole, Socialist editor of Le Travail, published charges of graft and financial scandal in the canton government of Geneva. Swiss conservatives retorted that Deputy Nicole and his ally Jacques Dicke, a naturalized Russian, were really Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops...
...horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much...
...Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political...