Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Judge Knox: "[You jurymen] have done a very excellent job. ... A national scandal. . . . All labor unions will doubtless be glad to have the unions purged of such individuals as these...
...quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared "not one but two of the most extraordinary men this country has ever produced" (Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt). Author Johnson's observation: each career was profoundly affected by a physical affliction-one by asthma, the other by infantile paralysis...
...longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind...
Then came Bull Run. A passing sentence in this book is like a key signature of the Union mood for years-General McDowell "had been unable to procure a decent map of Virginia." The crowds poured out on Sunday ("a scandal to the godly") to see the battle. Caterers tripled their prices for hampers of food that picnickers bought to take along...
Died. Sir Emsley Carr, 74, editor of Britain's No.1 scandal sheet, News of the World, world's largest Sunday paper; in Surrey, England. In 50 years he boosted its circulation from 40,000 to 4,000,000. Sir Emsley's formula: thorough coverage of scandal, sex crimes, divorces, miscellaneous murder, and sport. His pet boast was that he had never fired a member of his staff...