Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...people and said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked him for his evidence. He replied last week...
...fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter contained the germ of another national Oil Scandal...
...Angeles may have its Aimee Semple McPherson, and it may have its Bob Shuler, and it may have a lot of other disagreeable personages and things, through which rank publicity gains its way into lip-licking scandal sheets, but why the stab about Gaylord Wilshire in your issue...
Last fortnight the family asked police aid. New York thus learned that in addition to judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal evolving from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench...
Anquetil leaves, and Sebastian pursues his amour with the ageing but resplendent beauty. When scandal threatens, however, she abandons him, though it costs her her heart and her youth. Sebastian roams on darkly, rebellious but ineffective. For a time he finds a pretty young middle-class doctor's wife refreshing, until her bourgeois virtue thwarts him. Later he loves a hard-headed little model for her honest kindness, and there is mention of a game-keeper's daughter. His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon...