Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret or Scandal? The Churchill statement raised a corollary issue in the U.S.: what is U.S. policy? In the Senate Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, the ranking minority voice on foreign policy, was not so much interested in the dismemberment of Poland as in the U.S. attitude. Cried he: "The U.S. should not be a silent partner. ... If Churchill consulted the U.S. [on the Polish question] it is a state secret. If he did not, it is a state scandal...
Kingpin. Kenesaw Mountain Landis almost always wore a scowl, never pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...
...known to be selling Army gasoline in the French black market (TIME, Oct. 2). But even before MPs cracked down, the quantities were not enough to fuel more than a small share of the flagrant boom in pleasure driving. As more & more civilian cars appeared around Paris nightclubs, the scandal-perceptive French began to smell something...
Last week the scandal broke. After seething for days, Paris newspapers lashed out bitterly at short-memoried French playboys, barging about the capital in fancy cars. More in the know, the U.S. Army spoke more sternly: it announced the assignment of a large number of added guards (rumor said a whole division) to its Normandy pipelines, with orders to shoot to kill...
...Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half a reminiscent guide to Newport, and altogether with. out a breath of scandal, malice, adventure or repining...