Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charges. For any investigation of Arabian oil in the immediate future would be against the background of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. To take a hard look at this smeary oil picture, the Senate committee has called in former Senator Burton K. Wheeler (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a skilled scandal snuffer who first won national attention while investigating Teapot Dome. Wheeler has not yet decided whether a fulldress investigation is warranted. But last week all signs pointed...
...made Aléman Secretary of Gobernacidn (Government), the key Cabinet post. But Aléman was not the ranking minister. That was the job of Maximino Avila Camacho, the President's rich, powerful brother, who as Minister of Communications was the big shot and profited to the scandal of all. Maximino hated Aléman, but he did not live long enough to hurt him. One day Maximino dedicated a new health center, went home and died...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...
...said profiteering and gambling in sugar will create the scandal he foresees...
Senator Donnell (R-Mo) remarked that he had "no fear of any great national scandal" and asked Tobey why he made the charge...