Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Then, with a decidedly horror-stricken parlor remark, "Audacious" utters a "Do you know, my dear?" to the effect that Harvard men actually go to their nine o'clocks in full dress after returning from affairs lasting until dawn in the mauve ballrooms of Greater Boston. Tickled with this scandal, the dilettante society reporter proceeds to explain that the list is graded socially and not athletically. To quote: "If a man goes to Harvard and makes a varsity team, he usually makes the good clubs and therefore 'rates' at Harvard. But many who 'rate' at Harvard do not 'rate' socially...
...legislation last December by which the old law limiting the State's deposits in any one bank had been amended. There was talk of impeaching Governor Henry Hollis Horton. State's Attorney General L. D. Smith said he knew no "friend" when it came to investigating the bank scandal, would prosecute to the limit. From Manhattan came an offer for a $5,000,000 loan to the State by Chemical Bank & Trust Co., long Tennessee's fiscal agent...
Here was real scandal. Quick were the official denials. First denial, relayed from Vienna, announced that there had been no assassins; the shooting was accidental, due to the discharge of one of the railway guard's rifle. This was not enough for Minister of Communications Petko Stainoff, who categorically denied that there had been any shooting...
...citizens went to the polls and voted to have a city manager instead of their picturesque Mayor J. Waddy ("Hot Dog") Tate. Thus on May 1 they will join Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester (N. Y.), and 392 managerized U. S. cities where at present there is no major civic scandal. Grinning Mayor Tate was famed for his vote-getting campaign stunt of free hotdogs, promises of free donkeyrides for children, free City Hall sitting for bums, free potted plants for funerals. Long had he fought the manager-movement, contending that under such a system the Plain People who elected him would...
...Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with...