Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the Big Seven is "the American Bank of Poland," founded by Swedish Ivar Kreuger, suicided Match King, unmasked cheat (TIME, March 21 et seq.). Last week the Kreuger bank announced that only 60% of its depositors have withdrawn their accounts as a result of the Kreuger scandal. It had discharged only 50% of its staff and remained serenely open for further business...
...Chan-shan, am a simple military man, ashamed of my ignorance. ... All kinds of scandal have been heaped on my head. I have been patient with the betrayors of China, but now ... I have crossed the river and burned my boat. I have no alternative except to fight the Japanese to the end. I trust that my fellow countrymen will now understand my true self...
...Kreuger Scandal, already grown into one of the ugliest affairs in business history, last week increased in malignancy. At the time of Herr Kreuger's suicide it was suspected that there were '"irregularities" in his books. By last week the '"irregularities" had been disclosed as fraud of the worst type. Then came two disclosures which shattered the last vestige of admiration which could have attached itself to the late great maker of matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling markets...
When, momentarily escaping his oppressive public, he pays a late call on his fianceée (Mary Brian), a tabloid reporter informs him that the call is capable of turning into scandal. Even when married, Scotty Boy has a hard time. He abuses a nosey reporter and has to go on a good-will tour to make up for it. He has a misunderstanding with his wife when she is tricked into signing a cheap article about him. At the end of the picture there is a letdown, as though the authors (Mary McCall Jr. and Robert Lord) did not know...
Byers' prominence made his death a great scandal. He was chairman of A. M. Byers Co., Pittsburgh makers of wrought iron pipe, was connected with coke, docks and banking. He was a fine, widely known sportsman. In 1906 he won the national amateur golf championship. For years he kept a box at Forbes (baseball) Field, Pittsburgh. In England and the U.S. he had racing stables. He won trophies at trap shooting. He maintained homes at Pittsburgh, Southampton, L.I., and Aiken, S.C., often visited Palm Beach...