Word: scandalously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prominent University Hall Official was interviewed concerning the scandal. Induced from a pigeon-hole by a tempting piece of Roquefort, the official asserted, cautiously peering from side to side, "I will recommend militant disciplinary action. I'm off to Pinehurst. Wheel Say, didn't you think the latest Lampoon was a smackeroo? Omigosh, here comes a secretary. Enough is enough...
...collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill, in each part of Czechoslovakia, proportionately as many Government civil service jobs as there are Germans in the district concerned. This will make the Czechoslovak civil service about 99% German in the part...
...everybody knew, the vacancy was left by Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, who was caught last fortnight stealing his customers' securities (TIME, March 21). Other sequels to the Whitney scandal last week included: 1) his expulsion forever from the Stock Exchange; 2) suspension for three years of his floor partners, Edwin D. Morgan Jr. and Henry D. Mygatt, because Exchange custom demands such a penalty even though they were exonerated of any knowledge of the criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty...
Because talk was blossoming in reform circles of need for a new legislative purge of Wall Street as a result of the Whitney scandal, Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall took occasion as Richard Whitney finished his guilty plea to declare: "On the contrary, the Whitney case is the result of regulation that is stopping a practice that was apparently widespread in pledging customers' securities...
This, on the word of knowing Nancy Randolph, society reporter of the proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans...