Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure of producing steel in record-breaking time has apparently been too much even for U.S. Steel Corp., the world's No. 1 steelmaker. The Senate's powerful, long-nosed Truman Investigating Committee last week sniffed out the industrial scandal of the year. Employes in the giant Irvin, Pa. plant of U.S. Steel's subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois, had falsified records, had delivered some 26,000 tons of questionable steel plates to the Navy, Maritime Commission and Lend-Lease customers. According to testimony, this tonnage was about 5% of everything turned out by the Irvin Works...
...Boss was impressed by the Midwestern adage that every manure pile should sprout one rose-he saw in Truman a personally honest, courageous man whose respectability would disguise the odors of the Pendergast mob. Certainly Truman was no statesman in 1934. Neither had he ever been touched by scandal...
There Ethel Barrymore and Ruth Gordon made their debuts. There, in 1895, at the height of the Oscar Wilde scandal, The Importance of Being Earnest had a panicky U.S. premiere, closed in a week. There, in 1927, Edouard Bourdet's subtle, Lesbian The Captive was closed by the police. There, for over three years and 1,300 performances, Life With Father has been playing...
...already. This senseless task will take uncounted numbers of men and machines. A man with the requisite political guts and power to force these acreages into the production of crops the U.S. so sorely needs could at one stroke end a national crisis and a national scandal. But the man was not in evidence last week...
...American divorce," said the statement, "has practically made a farce of American marriage ... a scandal to the rest of the world." The Supreme Court decision, said the Catholics, bids fair "to make matters still worse." For the two dissenting Justices (Jackson, an Episcopalian; Murphy, a Catholic) there was praise...