Word: scandalously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then taken unofficial title to the job of Assistant Secretaryship. If the White House did not rate Mr. Woodring a first-class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936 did Harry Woodring become a problem. Franklin Roosevelt met that problem the easy way: he successively saved Harry Woodring's face and pleased his friend...
Dewey, already considered as Republican candidate for Governor, and even talked of for President in 1940, looked up. He appeared to have the makings of the juiciest campaign year scandal New York has known since Franklin Roosevelt practically ran Tammany's dapper little Mayor Jimmy Walker out of office...
...Prime scandal of the 1938 primary season was-on the basis of excited statements last fortnight by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor...
Symbol. Bill Douglas says that even without the Whitney scandal, the day had been carried. But the Whitney affair washed the slate clean. All resistance broken, the Exchange voted immediately for reorganization and for a new board of governors which included not a single Old Guarder, not even much-maligned Charles...
...under various Prime Ministers in such capacities as President of the Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping interests headed by the late Lord Kylsant and including the Royal Mail, faced scandal and collapse, Mr. Runciman stepped in to help unsnarl British shipping chaos by rapid, efficient reorganization...