Word: scandal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congress used to be called "Government by Committee." The Senate's Committee on Committees, invented in 1912, was a staple for the political japes of a generation not yet extinct. But now the system has been perfected into "Government by Inquiry." Whenever a "crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant...
...Hearst-Mexican scandal seemed almost forgotten, until Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader in the Senate, interposed. Senator Robinson, as a member of the committee that investigated the Hearst-Mexican documents, reminded the Senate that Senator Heflin had been fully exonerated. Senator Robinson also said: "... I think it unworthy of the Senator from Alabama to declare that the fact, if it be a fact,* that Mrs. Hearst is a Catholic, is in any way responsible for the publication of these documents...
...Minister assumed office, last week, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx cleared up an old, so-called scandal involving the Defense Ministry by bluntly stating that in 1926 it sank large secret funds in defending the cinema industries of the Reich from U. S. competition. Although this involved a very wide interpretation of the Defense Ministry's duties, Chancellor Marx challenged critics to deny that German cinema firms were being rapidly swamped by U. S. competition at the time when they were assisted by the secret funds...
Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn...
...happenings in a jumbled, chaotic sort of way" and does not think. Nor should ministers permit themselves, Editor Leach admonished, to organize their sermons, as so many do, "in about the same way that newspapers are organized [with] a bit of politics, a bit of scandal, a bit of love, a bit of hate and a little bit of religion...