Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inefficiency in the War Department. The sooner we can weed out this element the sooner we can begin real fighting. The Allies are counting on our guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...
France is again in the throes of a political scandal which in more normal times would be creating a world-wide sensation. M. Malvy, for several years Minister of the Interior, whose activities had been shown up in a very bad light at the time of the Bolo Pasha scandal, and who had been subsequently accused in the Chamber of being in league with Germany, requested recently a trial before the Senate for high treason. But the Special Committee of Thirty-Three, charged with the investigation of the accused, has rejected this proposal and suggested to the Chamber that...
...elements that can be dealt with and eventually eliminated. But with the game roaring through the country on a strictly professional basis no great stretch of imagination is required to picture effects on the college game--the flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root...
Under the auspices of the University Dramatic Association Annie Russell's Old English Comedy Company gave two performances, "The School for Scandal," and "She Stoops to Conquer" last Tuesday evening. On Wednesday evening the Kneisel Quartet gave its first concert of the season. The 1914 Class votes have been compiled. Cornish was voted most popular and best all-round athlete, Ketcham was voted to be most admired, and Bishop the most original...
Service in the Associated Press requires usually a newspaper training, a keen, alert mind, and a "nose" for news of the right kind (scandal and opinions are not accepted). There is every chance for the man who is willing to work 24 hours at a stretch if it be necessary as it often is, and who can see news and describe it accurately. Two-thirds of the really serious news work is being done by college graduates. The college man has this distinct advantage, concluded Mr. Martin, over the other man,--his training affords him the address and ability...