Word: aboveboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking before a many-sided and responsive audience to close to 1200, Wallace supporter O. John Rogge 11 times called the evening's discussion of the U. S. Communist question, "a typical smoke-screen for fascists, American style" while lawyer Morris Ernst 9 times hammered for completely aboveboard Communist Party operations...
...London's swank West End auto showrooms, the proprietor flicked a bit of fluff from his immaculate morning coat. Said he blithely: "Shocking, of course, but perfectly aboveboard...
...such unsportsmanlike reporting, Siniavsky last week got the sack. Also fired was the "careless editor" who passed the story. The London Daily Worker virtuously pointed the moral: "Soviet journalism, while hard-hitting, enjoys a splendid reputation for accuracy and clean, aboveboard reporting . . . the violators pay the price. . . . The world's press would gain immensely in prestige if it were to take similar action against the daily purveyors of anti-Soviet slanders...
Cuba's election of June 1, which was encouragingly open & aboveboard, almost resulted in a military dictatorship. The news came out last week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
...been going on for years in every school of our acquaintance. For the last two years we have endeavored to bring our proselyting activities out from under the table. . . . We believe that the time has come for athletic scholarships to be placed on a businesslike basis, open and aboveboard. . . . We might as well face the facts. . . . There isn't a finer agricultural-engineering-textile school anywhere. Yet popular opinion is that the finest schools are those producing the best athletic teams...