Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...
With her foreign trade almost half gone, with unemployment growing, with an election-fraud scandal stewing and with no 1941 budget voted, Argentina last week drifted perilously close to the rocks of political chaos. Only two men seemed to have any idea of what to do about it, and Juan Pueblo, as Argentinos call the man-in-the-street, did not trust either...
...Mecca the arrest was just a local scandal, but to London it smacked at first of important Nazi machinations in the Middle East. Wastrel Abdul Hamid did visit Germany last year. Asserted Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: "The conspiracy to murder King Ibn Saud was hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London...
Jean Chiappe was born a few blocks from the birthplace of Napoleon, and like the greater Corsican he hated the British. He was best known as Prefect of the Paris Police, a job he lost in the Stavisky scandal. In the years leading up to World War II he was an indefatigable behind-the-scenes worker against the British orientation of French policy and had been accused of plotting a Fascist coup. When the armistice came he naturally stood with Vichy, but until last week the Vichy rulers had found...
...salary: $10,000), 41 -year-old Joseph Brandt, a Lutheran, will succeed BaptistBible-collecting William Bennett Bizzell next August. Oklahoma's Sooners (named for the settlers who rushed into the Territory sooner than the zero hour in 1889) are tough. Few years ago six Sooner athletes caused a scandal by flogging a campus newspaper correspondent whose dispatches they did not like. Last week the consensus was that Sooners would think twice before trying such tricks on rawboned, red-haired Joseph Brandt...