Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, March 27--Amid bitter charges by Senator Tobey (R-NH) that it was opening the way for "a national scandal," the Senate approved and sent back to the House tonight a bill to kill rationing and price control of sugar next October...
Father Henry C. Wallace, a solid, competent editor and a good Secretary of Agriculture (he helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...
...this way: "First, the fun of spending money. . . . Then there is the incontrovertible fact, proved by postcards, snapshots, movie reels and the labels on their baggage, that [the globe-girdlers] have actually circumnavigated the globe. . . . Then they get four months of bridge, of comparing notes, prices and scandal with new friends delightfully like themselves, a lot of good ozone, offset by more or less continuous indigestion from rich food, liquor and lack of the exercise to which they are accustomed; innumerable Things Seen which will make them authorities not to be contradicted by the stay-at-homes for a long...
Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
Almost unnoticed amid the local mayoralty scandal and a series of felonies juicy enough to please the most avid tabloid devotee, a group of national leaders in higher education last week chose Boston for their annual meeting. For three days, the Association of American Colleges met at the Statler, and in the course of its deliberations neatly side stopped the most ubiquitous and difficult of all pedagogical problems--money. The nettlesome issue of Federal subsidies for higher education stood high on the agenda, and one of the keynote speeches featured Dr. Carmichael of Tufts in a fervent plea for Federal...