Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidate Roosevelt began by announcing (through his manager) that his last-minute choice for permanent convention chairman was Montana's grey, grim Senator Thomas James Walsh, famed Oil Scandal investigator, who presided over the long-drawn convention...
Members of National Electric Light Association, convening in Atlantic City last week, heard Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated Gas stoutly define a well-managed holding company as a "potent instrument for the public welfare." Because of the Insull and Tri-Utilities collapses as well as the Kreuger scandal, the holding company theory at present is the subject of many an attack, many an inquiry. Last week from the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, the holding company theory received its 'second setback in three weeks...
...sobering effect. But at nights he forgot his troubles with the British Ambassador, assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius, the Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento...
These six cases within the past fortnight provided Oklahoma with a full-size medical scandal last week. Subsequent developments caused the scandal to swell horridly...
...five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme. The scandal was not lessened by the fact that Authoress Hall wears mannish shirts and ties, a monocle on a cord, is called "John" by her friends. Suppressed in England, the book was vindicated in the U. S. by a Victory Edition. Asked if its story...