Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
Ralph Coghlan last year wrote a rousing editorial that began: "St. Louis is confronted with a reeking, stinking scandal, and Circuit Judge Eugene L. Padberg is sitting right in the middle of it. ..." Fitzpatrick upheld his end with a cartoon series showing politicians and racketeers together in an ugly, symbolical St. Louis sidestreet called "Rat Alley...
...late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating and by last week Great Britain had a Government scandal on its hands unequaled since Old Jim Thomas was ousted for giving out budget secrets (TIME...
...domestic fuel, was recently introduced as a substitute for precious gasoline in powering automobiles. Last week the fuel shortage was so grim that gasoline had to be used as a substitute for charcoal. Schoolchildren were sent into the mountains to cut wood and carbonate it for charcoal. A great scandal broke out when two 15-year-olds fell to their death in a charring...
...interdict, first in Cleveland's history,* was imposed by able Archbishop Joseph Schrembs. Reason: the people of Holy Redeemer parish had caused "public scandal," made "a holy show" of themselves. Latins, like Polish Catholics, sometimes love the minor authority of the priest more than the major authority of the Church. The parish seethed with resentment last month when it learned that it was to have a new priest, Father Vincent Caruso. It wanted Father Louis Loi-Zed-da, who had been assistant in the church for seven years. Two Sundays ago, when Archbishop Schrembs attempted to have Father Caruso...