Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen has been continuously Prime Minister longer than anyone else now living: ten years. In that time he has kept Hungary from Communism, weathered the franc-forging scandal which embroiled many of the country's leading personages (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926 et seq.), kept France and her Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) at bay; made an alliance with Dictator Mussolini, signed treaties of friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation...
John Cromwell (For the Defense, Tom Sawyer, Scandal Sheet, Unfaithful...
...Congress. No picture of Harry Micajah Daugherty, discredited Attorney General, nor of Aaron Burr, unpopular U. S. Vice President, hangs officially in Washington. But in the Capitol lobby still hangs Schuyler Colfax, U. S. Vice President (1869-73) who was implicated but not convicted in the Credit Mobilier scandal...
...Selznick saga is a fantasy told in light signs over Broadway, a loud scandal whispered in file copies of Variety, a legend forgotten in the smoke that curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold...
...preparing to sue for possession of his estate. Gracefully and probably shrewdly, Son Mitten turned the estate (now valued at $1,000,000) over to P. R. T., thereby helping the company in a time of need and saving his father's transactions from further scandal. Chief items in the estate are large rural landholdings, 20,000 P. R. T. shares. Son Mitten will not be destitute, however. He still receives $50,000 a year as P. R. T. chairman...