Word: beholdenness
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Young Henry Caridius, having failed as a lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat...
...require all bank officers to report to their boards of directors loans above a specified minimum which they obtain from any source, so that a directorate will know to whom its officers are beholden...
Advocated reduction of immigration quotas by 90%, and the immediate deportation of aliens "directly or indirectly beholden to the Third Internationale...
...campaign silence, President Coolidge made public a letter last week saying that both he and Mrs. Coolidge expected to go home to Northampton, Mass., to vote for Senator William J. Butler and Governor Alvan T. Fuller. Of Senator Butler he said: "He stands on the Senate floor independent, beholden to no one, a Senator of Massachusetts, serving the people in the public interests. His presence there is of great importance to me in my efforts to discharge the duties of my office." Well might President Coolidge break his silence, for Senator Butler's re-election is seriously threatened...
...thought that Kansas should have a government beholden to this hooded gang of masked fanatics, ignorant and tyrannical in their ruthless oppression, is what calls me out of the pleasant ways of my life, into this distasteful, but necessary, task...