Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1946, he got the job-writing the new society chitchat and gossip column that W.R. Hearst had ordered. As "Freddie Francisco," Patterson filled his column with racy penthouse scandal and jive talk, was soon earning $15,000 a year as the Examiner's prize drawing card. Once, when he called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered...
...budget secrets; in London. Starting as a railroad engine wiper in his early teens, Thomas led his first strike at 15, rose to be head of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen, became a Laborite M.P., served in five Cabinets, was slated for the peerage when the budget scandal broke...
...eyes of Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt, the skintight, low-cut gowns worn at Cuban church weddings are a scandal. "The fashion of impudent undressing," he thundered last week, "has become more prevalent and more indecent among the women . . . not only on the beaches, at dances, and in other profane diversions, but even in such a sacred ceremony as the sacrament of marriage...
...trouble getting jobs, seldom kept them very long. Between 1895 and 1897 he built up Ev'ry Month, which his brother Paul's publishers backed, to a circulation of 65,000, and he was an enterprising, ambitious editor of Delineator from 1907 to 1910, when an office scandal forced him out. In 1932, he helped Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill to launch the short-lived American Spectator (which the "tired" editors closed down...
Died. Mal S. Daugherty, 86, smalltown banker and political poohbah, one of the last surviving figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds...