Great events from history. Modern scandals

Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952- (Added Author).

Summary: Describes and analyzes 400 of the most important and most publicized scandals in all fields of human endeavor that have occurred throughout the world since the beginning of the 20th century.

Record details

ISBN: 9781587654725 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1587654725 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781587654688 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1587654687 (set : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781587654695 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1587654695 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781587654701 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1587654709 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781587654718 (v. 3 : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1587654717 (v. 3 : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (3 v.) : ill.
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	v. 1. 1904-1972 -- 1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds -- January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery -- December, 1904: Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud -- 1906-1909: Emperor William Ii's Homosexual "Circle" Scandalizes Germany -- March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children -- June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White -- July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason -- December 8, 1906: Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover -- 1907: Elinor Glyn's Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers -- June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion -- November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II -- 1909-1916: Dancer Isadora Duncan Begins Affair with Millionaire Heir -- 1910: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin -- March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire -- January, 1913: British Prime Minister's Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading -- January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office -- February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public -- May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution -- April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match -- May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks -- July 27, 1917: Millionaire Socialite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances -- 1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes are Revealed as Investment Frauds -- September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in "Black Sox" Scandal -- July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation -- February 1, 1922: Director Taylor's Murder Ruins Mabel Normand's Acting Career -- March 26, 1922: Hindemith's Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun's Sexual Desires -- April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter -- June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors -- January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid's Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry -- March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud -- May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty's Aide Commits Suicide -- October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases -- January 1, 1924: Film Star Mabel Normand's Chauffeur Shoots Millionaire Courtland S. Dines -- May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act -- October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government -- November 19, 1924: Film Producer Thomas H. Ince Dies after Weekend on Hearst's Yacht -- July, 1925: Nosferatu is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright -- May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She was Kidnapped -- December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games -- 1927: Mae West's Play about Gays is Banned on Broadway -- 1927: President Warren G. Harding's Lover Publishes Tell-All Memoir -- Early 1928: Joseph P. Kennedy Begins an Affair with Gloria Swanson -- 1928-1929: Actor is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian -- March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit -- June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience -- November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry -- 1930: Liberia is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery -- May, 1930: Postmaster's Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal -- December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L'Âge d'or Provokes French Rioting -- March 30, 1931: "Scottsboro Boys" are Railroaded through Rape Trials -- 1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation -- July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington -- September 4, 1932: Film Star Jean Harlow's Husband Is an Apparent Suicide -- January 20, 1933: Hedy Lamarr Appears Nude in the Czech Film Exstase -- March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine -- January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936 Stavisky's Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government -- May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel -- July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee -- December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd's Death cannot be Explained -- May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns after Budget Information Leak -- Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor's Diary becomes a Public Sensation -- December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée -- March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption -- September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths -- October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany -- May 22, 1939: Kansas City's Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion -- February 6, 1942: Film Star Errol Flynn Is Acquitted of Rape --
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.