Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place . . . There is hesitation in Congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the President. But this is public business and very important public business. ... It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. How can you have any kind of morale with a subordinate employe, who happens to be the wife of the President of the United States, flitting in and out between lecture engagements to toss a few more pets into nice jobs...
...Burma Road, ever since its opening in September 1938, has been the greatest racket in China. It has been, and still remains, both a national scandal and a national disgrace...
They did not deny many of Stowe's minor points: bootlegging of gasoline by penny-hungry truck drivers is an open scandal, as it is on many an American trucking run. Petty thievery is rampant: efficient policing is long overdue. The Chinese say they are combating these abuses, and they back up the statement with figures showing increasing efficiency. In July 1941 the road carried 3,864 tons of military supplies. In November it carried 17,500 tons. No comparable improvement in war effort has been demonstrated...
...Publications chief of promotion-publicity was indicted for criminal conspiracy on charges of using a dictagraph to steal trade secrets. Most embarrassed U.S. publisher was Macfadden Publications (True Story, et al.), which last February ousted Bernarr Macfadden, promised to employ "new policies" after cleaning up a big watered-circulation scandal (TIME...
Burdened with one of the highest tax rates in the United States, with a record of scandal, mismanagement, and inefficiency bad enough to lead her to the verge of bankruptcy, Cambridge is entering an era which will either bring about Political salvation or see her in the hands of a State finance commission...