Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive of the Cornell Daily Sun denied yesterday that any members of the Cornell football team were involved in a $250,000 a year gambling scandal which has rocked Ithaca...
...time is that the minister is both overworked and unemployed; overworked in a multitude of tasks that do not have the slightest connection with religion, and unemployed in the serious concerns and exacting labors of maintaining a disciplined spiritual life among mature men and women. It is a scandal of modern Protestantism that young men called to the high venture of the Christian way . . . are graduated into churches where the magnitude of their vocation is macerated . . . by the pressure of the petty practices of so-called parish progress...
...Laborites made some election propaganda out of the scandal, but much more than politics was involved. Whichever party wins, the case has made it virtually certain that the next Parliament will enact legislation, similar to that in the U.S., to protect Britain's small investors...
Confident that they had found a means of playing on the shortchanged feeling that many a $35-a-week British wage earner feels as he steers his motorbike among the Rolls Royces and Bentleys, Labor's orators claimed the Jasper scandal as certified proof that "the few" were skimming off the cream of Britain's prosperity. Tory Macmillan, a veteran campaigner with a shrewd feeling for the popular mood, was sufficiently discomfited to announce that the government intended to review Britain's companies act to see whether regulations against speculative operations such as Jasper's should...
...Gang's All Here. Although the authors (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick...