Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Manhattan doctor whose showgirl fiancée had gone to Hollywood. The girl had broken her promise of marriage, refused to return the doctor's gift of jewelry, worth $18,000. Names were omitted but the girl was advised to "do the right thing and save a lot of unnecessary scandal and gossip . . . involving big men." Last week Zit's proudly announced that Catherine Moylan, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, had returned the jewelry to Dr. Morton I. Berson, that "releases were signed ... all letters destroyed...
Moscow is hungry for fresh vegetables, could do with more fresh meat. The bread shortage of last year no longer exists, but this evidence of better times was all but ignored last week as a great squawk began about the Vegetable Scandal. Squawked the Workers' Gazette...
...last act of a newspaper racket story which made the petty taxing of Chicago brothel keepers pale into insignificance. Morris Lavine, ace reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, was convicted of attempting to extort $75,000 in the course of a second expose of the Julian Petroleum Corp. scandal...
Legislative Hobby: refining the law. He is vigilant in advising the Senate when legislative precedents are apt to be established. His bills have been of legal nature, or else pertaining to the oil scandal. One of the latter allowed Oilman Henry M. Blackmer, of Denver, to be subpenaed abroad and fined...
Compensation Plan. When the U. S. entered the War, President Wilson inaugurated the war risk insurance system as a means of avoiding the kind of pension payments which were such a scandal after the Civil War. In 1919 was inaugurated the system of compensating those actually disabled in War service. Veterans' organizations proudly disapproved of any pension system and the whole structure of governmental aid was built away from that old practice. On the theory that they would never be pensioned, veterans demanded and received from Congress a Bonus which was called "adjusted compensation." The word "pension...