Word: aboveboard
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...going to try to make the Senate interesting. ... I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office...
...interested in. He is probably the greatest of the new type of lobbyist. The old type of lobbyist was a man who went around pulling wires, invoicing "pull," giving parties, wining and dining the men whom he expected to pass his bills. The new type of lobbyist is entirely aboveboard. His weapon is the card index. He keeps tab on everything and everybody that affects the things he is interested in. Mr. Silver's record in Washington is remarkable. The bills he has passed and the bills he has defeated are innumerable. When he wished to exert pressure...