Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predicting an imminent "scandal that would stink to high heaven," he declared: "Vadal Peterson, Utah University coach, knocked down a gambler who came to his room in New York last spring and asked how much it would cost to have Utah lose to Dartmouth in the N.C.A.A. finals. . . .* Professional gamblers already have caused two boys to throw basketball games...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...
...Great Egg Scandal moved apace. The U.S. had not only bungled. It intended to go on bungling. In Manhattan last week, OPA lifted the top ceiling on eggs 2? per dozen, the second increase in two weeks. Over the whole of the U.S., egg ceilings have been raised some 8? per dozen in the last two months. Reason: hens are beginning their vacation from egg-laying...
...dishonest deed. He knew I wouldn't do it. When Tom Pendergast was down and out, a convicted man, [people] wanted me to denounce him. I refused. . . . I wouldn't kick a friend." Newsmen who battled the Pendergast dynasty agreed that Truman himself was untouched by scandal...
...World War I, when she was subbing as the editor for her husband, a Quitman clergyman used his churchly influence to wheedle a local grocer out of more than his Hooverized share of flour. The news leaked, and Quitman's food administrator cracked down on the parson. The scandal rocked the town. A Quitman banker, chief elder of the church, ordered Miss Edna to write an editorial denouncing the food administrator. She laughed him out of her office. Next day came word that the bank was going to foreclose a loan on the Free Press. When this news...