Word: shame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame on Reader Pat Brennan [Feb. 17] for comparing the accomplishments of Spellman, Sheen and Gushing with those of Dio, Anastasia and Luciano. However, may I point out to Pat that in both fields he mentioned-the Catholic Church and the underworld-Italians...
...worse it is for a press overlord to attempt to govern by pulling strings but taking none of the responsibility or the blame!" Added 74-year-old Frederick Maag Jr., publisher of the Democratic Vindicator: "Mr. Jackson is so well-equipped for public service that it would be a shame to deprive him of the right to take part in politics. Of course, I'm not sure what our position might be if Jackson were nominated and became the Democratic candidate for governor." That prospect, less interested political editors agreed, is even more remote than the chance that Clingan...
...That is not the fact," snapped Krishnamachari. Under heckling by Gandhi and others, the minister admitted later that the corporation had indeed bought a whopping $3,200,000 worth of Mundhra stocks at the ministry's direction. "Shame," cried legislators. "Collusion," charged Gandhi, between government and Mundhra. If the corporation itself had investigated Mundhra, Gandhi cried, it would not have touched the promoter's companies "with a tadpole's tail...
...this single piece of evidence, Dreyfus is arrested and charged with espionage. To avoid the scandal of a trial, which would involve a public admission that the General Staff itself had been corrupted by the Germans, the army tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently...
...Parliament, Strydom's Justice Minister Charles Swart declared that the opposition planned to use this "unfortunate instance of a public servant" against the Nationalists in the campaign for the April general elections. On hearing this, the Nationalists glowered at their opponents and burst into shouts of "Shame...