Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scandal. For this inexcusable condition, the nation's farmers, cattlemen, canners and many a public official had but one point of blame: a fantastically mixed-up Government food policy, pulled and hauled among nine agencies...
...league (which represents 29,000 New York dairymen). Said he: "Some day city people will learn that as far as milk is concerned, the OPA has been their No. 1 enemy. . . . The present system of price fixing on food products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation...
...World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
...bribe from a parking meter company. Last week teachers were struggling to get continuing contracts. The Board showed some signs of backing up, signing up. Tough Hamtramck, although busy in its war plants, happy in its beer gardens, was apparently beginning to resent its newest, if not greatest, local scandal...
...tutor, and assistant professor at Harvard. It is pretty well established that he graduated here in 1923, taught English for two years, and then joined the Atlantic staff. In those days the self-assured calm of the monthly had not attained the heroic proportions that recently made a semi-scandal out of color-of-cover innovations. Morrison indirectly participated in three memorable episodes when the Atlantic published Felix Frankfurter's Sacco-Vanzetti case analysis that stirred up a new trial, copious New Salem Lincolniana that later proved completely "cooked up," and Al Smith's "hot" literary rebuttal to a challenge...