Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet, usually placid Edward Kennedy, A.P.'s Mediterranean chief, had crackled that this was "a censorship scandal ten times more important than suppression of [the] Patton incident, and if accepted by us can only lead to permanent Allied political censorship in Europe...
Colonel Canella admitted that his Army career was ''washed up." But he was most worried about the effect of the scandal on his two West Pointer sons, both combat officers overseas...
...Three are cut from the same pattern. Their page size is the same as that of standard U.S. papers. Each costs 20 kopecks (a subway ride costs 40, a trolley ride 15). There are no comic strips, no columnists, no crime or scandal, few pictures, only a stick or so of sports news about such things as chess championships. Readers do not miss them. The newly literate Russian masses have so vast an appetite for the written word that they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets...
...autocrat to his finger tips, Cardinal O'Connell was a remote figure to most of the 23 million U.S. Catholics. But they heard him often. He thundered against Hollywood ("the scandal of the nation"), Albert Einstein's theories ("authentic atheism, even if camouflaged as cosmic pantheism"), radio crooners ("whiners crying vapid words"), mercy killings ("suffering is the discipline of humanity"), morals in general ("women are becoming masculine and the men effeminate"). He denounced immoral styles, told his priests they might refuse Holy Communion to women with lipstick...
...commission, appointed by Governor Dewey after the Creedmoor scandal last May (TIME, June 7), has been investigating New York State's mental hospitals. Head of the commission is smart Lawyer Archie 0. Dawson. Findings...