Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard park bench in Washington's Lafayette Square, three of the nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
...Banned Adolfo Lanus' Campo Minado (Minefield), the scandal-packed expose of Nazi activities in Argentina and the Administration's sly acquiescence...
...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...
...dreamlike confusion of the Rubber Scandal, two new faces swam into focus last week. The New York Times reported flatly one morning that Franklin Roosevelt had asked Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone of the U.S. Supreme Court to make an investigation and give the nation the facts. Justice Stone's picture hovered momentarily on the front page, then dissolved into vapor. President Roosevelt had talked to him-but not about an investigation...
Even then Dr. Weizmann was experimenting with synthetic rubber: his acetone was a byproduct. Perhaps able, inventive Chaim Weizmann was the man to whom the U.S. could look for a way out of the Rubber Scandal...