Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barked: "That's the most radical statement I have ever heard made in this club:" Tapping the educator on the chest, he added ominously: "Fisher, I'm agin you and I hope you know what that means." By last week it meant a national educational scandal and a first-class political battle in the State of Washington...
...incited by everything from Dadaism to literary prize awards), political squabbles and fishwife furies are traditional components of the French literary life. Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise. Last Maurras scandal occurred a year ago when he was elected to the French Academy (TIME, June 27, 1938), following close on the finish of his eight-month prison sentence for urging assassination of Leon Blum...
Said he: "In the interest of good business, the Street simply cannot afford any avoidable major scandal, involving large losses to customers. ... In the Whitney failure, members of the public generally were not involved because the firm was not doing any large public business. But that was only good fortune. It was even more of a fortunate accident that the recent Elfast insolvency did not involve the public. That was sheer good luck. . . . The time to build fire escapes is not while a fire is raging, but when the building is in good condition...
Next year he turned up in Hollywood with a screen story to sell about Ellis Island. It was a flop, but since then Mike has been getting $50 a week from Twentieth Century-Fox (he says $150), sometimes working as an extra for other studios (Cafe Society, Fools for Scandal). He lives thriftily with his ikons in a modest flat in Beverly Hills, drives the right people to the right places in his two-year-old Cadillac, owes only a minor tailor bill, which is disappearing by installments...
When the bubble burst, Stavisky was found in Chamonix, a bullet through his head. The suspicion was that the police had killed him because he knew too much. Rightist newsorgans (particularly the Royalist Action Française) played up the scandal as typical Leftist corruption. Rightists began to demonstrate in Paris, and Police Chief Jean Chiappe seemed overly lenient in dealing with the demonstrators. The Chautemps Government fell and M. Daladier, Chautemps' successor, fired M. Chiappe. It was then-February 6, 1934-that a mob gathered at the Place de la Concorde and started over a bridge across...