Table of Contents Publisher’sNote................................................................................... xv Introduction...................................................................................... xvii Contributors...................................................................................... xix Volume 1 1900s October 16, 1901: Most Southerners Believe that Booker T. Washington’s Dinner at the White House Is Scandalous......1 1904: Theodore Roosevelt Is Accused of Accepting Corporate Funds .......................................... 5 January 23, 1904: Senator Joseph R. Burton Is Convicted of Bribery ........................................... 8 December, 1904: Boston Alderman Is Reelected While in Jail for Fraud........................................ 11 March 2, 1906: Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones Is Accused of Molesting Mentally Disabled Children ...................14 June 25, 1906: Millionaire Heir Murders Architect Stanford White............................................ 18 July 12, 1906: French Court Declares Alfred Dreyfus Innocent of Treason...................................... 22 December 8, 1906: Former U.S. Senator Arthur Brown Is Murdered by Lover................................... 25 1907: Elinor Glyn’s Novel Three Weeks Shocks Readers.................................................... 28 June 13, 1907: San Francisco Mayor Schmitz Is Found Guilty of Extortion ..................................... 31 November 15, 1908: Belgium Confiscates Congo Free State from King Leopold II ............................... 34 1910s 1910: Nobelist Marie Curie Has Affair with Physicist Paul Langevin .......................................... 39 March 25, 1911: Nearly 150 Workers Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ................................... 42 January, 1913: British Prime Minister’s Staff Is Investigated for Insider Trading ................................. 46 January 13, 1913: Federal Judge Is Impeached for Profiting from His Office .................................... 49 February 17-March 15, 1913: Armory Modern Art Show Scandalizes the Public ................................. 52 May 13, 1913: Boxer Jack Johnson Is Imprisoned for Abetting Prostitution ..................................... 55 April 2, 1915: Players Fix Liverpool-Manchester United Soccer Match ........................................ 58 May, 1915: British Government Falls Because of Munitions Shortages and Military Setbacks....................... 61 1919-1920: Ponzi Schemes Are Revealed as Investment Frauds .............................................. 63 September 21, 1919: White Sox Players Conspire to Lose World Series in “Black Sox” Scandal..................... 66 1920s July 19, 1921: U.S. Senate Rebukes Navy in Homosexuality Investigation...................................... 71 March 26, 1922: Hindemith’s Opera Sancta Susanna Depicts a Nun’s Sexual Desires ............................. 74 April 12, 1922: Film Star Fatty Arbuckle Is Acquitted of Manslaughter ........................................ 77 June 22, 1922: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Is Accused of Selling Honors.......................... 81 January 18, 1923: Actor Wallace Reid’s Death in Drug Rehab Shakes Film Industry .............................. 84 March 2, 1923: U.S. Senate Investigates Veterans Bureau Chief for Fraud ...................................... 87 May 30, 1923: U.S. Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty’s Aide Commits Suicide.............................. 90 October 22, 1923: U.S. Senate Begins Hearings on Teapot Dome Oil Leases .................................... 93 May 12, 1924: Kentucky Congressman John W. Langley Is Convicted of Violating the Volstead Act .................98 October 25, 1924: Forged Communist Letter Brings Down British Government................................. 101 July, 1925: Nosferatu Is Found to Have Violated Dracula Copyright ......................................... 104 May-June, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Claims She Was Kidnapped ............................. 107 December 26, 1926: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Are Accused of Fixing Baseball Games .......................... 111 1927: Mae West’s Play About Gays Is Banned on Broadway ............................................... 114 1928-1929: Actor Is Suspected of Falsely Claiming to Be an American Indian ................................. 117 March 21, 1928: Alberta Government Sterilizes Thousands Deemed Genetically and Mentally Unfit ................120 v Table of Contents MODERN SCANDALS June 6, 1929: Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou Shocks Parisian Audience .................................... 123 November, 1929: Banque Oustric et Cie Failure Prompts French Inquiry ...................................... 126 1930s 1930: Liberia Is Accused of Selling Its Own Citizens into Slavery ........................................... 129 May, 1930: Postmaster’s Division of Airmail Routes Creates a Scandal ....................................... 132 December 3, 1930: Surrealist Film L’Âge D’or Provokes French Rioting ...................................... 135 March 30, 1931: “Scottsboro Boys” Are Railroaded Through Rape Trials ..................................... 138 1932: Insull Utilities Trusts Collapse Prompts New Federal Regulation ....................................... 141 July 28, 1932: U.S. Troops Drive World War I Veterans from Washington ..................................... 144 March 31, 1933: New York Times Reporter Denies Reports of a Soviet Famine ................................. 147 January 8, 1934-January 17, 1936: Stavisky’s Fraudulent Schemes Rock French Government...................... 150 May 16, 1934: General Douglas MacArthur Sues Newspaper Columnist for Libel............................... 153 July 10, 1934: Sex Scandal Forces Resignation of Alberta Premier Brownlee................................... 156 December 16, 1935: Film Star Thelma Todd’s Death Cannot Be Explained .................................... 159 May 20, 1936: British Cabinet Member Resigns After Budget Information Leak ................................ 162 Summer, 1936: Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation .................................... 165 December 10, 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates to Marry an American Divorcée .............................. 168 March 17, 1937: Atherton Report Exposes San Francisco Police Corruption ................................... 171 September-October, 1937: Prescription Elixir Causes More than One Hundred Deaths ........................... 173 October 11-22, 1937: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Visit Nazi Germany ..................................... 176 May 22, 1939: Kansas City’s Boss Pendergast Pleads Guilty to Income Tax Evasion ............................. 179 1940s February 19, 1942: President Roosevelt Orders Internment of Japanese Americans .............................. 183 April 22, 1942: French Prime Minister Pierre Laval Wants Germany to Win World War II ........................ 187 December 5, 1942: Industrialist Charles Bedaux Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration ............................. 190 January 14, 1943: Film Star Frances Farmer Is Jailed and Institutionalized..................................... 193 February 23, 1943: Irish Orphan School Fire Kills Thirty-five Girls .......................................... 196 April 19, 1945: In a Paternity Lawsuit, a Jury concludes that Actor Charlie Chaplin Is the Biological Father ..........199 June 5, 1944: Australian Poets Claim Responsibility for a Literary Hoax ...................................... 203 May 9, 1945: Norwegian Politician Quisling Is Arrested for Nazi Collaboration ................................ 206 May 26, 1945: Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun Is Arrested for Treason ...................................... 209 August 14, 1945: French War Hero Pétain Is Convicted of Nazi Collaboration ................................. 212 December 14, 1945: Poet Ezra Pound Is Charged with Treason and Institutionalized ............................. 215 Spring, 1947: Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Is Suspended for Gambling Ties ................................ 218 July 5, 1948: Actor Carole Landis Commits Suicide During Affair with Rex Harrison............................ 221 August 4, 1948: Columnist Drew Pearson Exposes Congressman’s Corruption ................................. 224 August 31, 1948: Film Star Robert Mitchum Is Arrested for Drug Possession .................................. 227 May 27, 1949: Actor Rita Hayworth Marries Aly Khan After Adulterous Affair ................................ 230 August 26, 1949: Viet Minh Broadcasts French General’s Damaging Report ................................... 233 1950s January 21, 1950: Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury ..................................................... 235 February 7, 1950: Swedish Film Star Ingrid Bergman Has a Child Out of Wedlock .............................. 238 February 9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Launches Communist Witch Hunt............................. 241 May 3, 1950: U.S. Senate Committee Begins Investigating Organized Crime................................... 245 January 17, 1951: College Basketball Players Begin Shaving Points for Money ................................. 248 July 16, 1951: Belgium’s Disgraced King Leopold III Abdicates ............................................ 251 November 16, 1951: Federal Tax Official Resigns After Accepting Bribes..................................... 254 September 19, 1952: Actor Charles Chaplin Cannot Reenter the United