Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tightest, grimmest war shortage facing the U.S. is rubber. It need not have been. For five months after Pearl Harbor the U.S. government did practically nothing effective to get a synthetic rubber industry created to fill the gap caused by Japan's conquests. That failure is the worst scandal of the U.S. war effort; the sort of scandal which, in another country, would have cost a couple of Ministers their jobs or perhaps have toppled a whole government. Only in the past eight weeks has a new team, with a passion for anonymity, arisen in Washington to take hold...
...real scandal was that nobody, before Pearl Harbor, had the combined foresight and strength of character to haul Jesse over the White House coals-and Jesse had forehandedly had his penny-pinching notions approved by the President. The U.S. was caught so short that somebody should have been impeached-but no one could put his finger on whom to impeach. Jesse Jones was rubber king by default, not by delegation of powers...
...first jobs was to clean up skinny, bullet-pocked Legs Diamond's gang. His record since has been both unspectacular and unmarred by scandal. As a public official he is colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...
...Once the scandal was announced in the Senate, however, several of those in the Senate and in the press who last year were isolationists took up the cudgels for Senator Walsh. Missouri's Bennett Clark demanded an immediate Senate investigation of "the old hussy who runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...
...known facts made only one thing indisputable: either a serious scandal was being hushed up or a really diabolical libel had been perpetrated...