Word: besmeared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 45 years ago by Warren Harding, a man with an eye for figures. He set up a Budget Bureau and named as its first director Chicago Banker Charles Gates Dawes, a frugal fellow who came to deplore "the dirty demagogues of both parties who get the report and besmear and befog it in the minds of the public." Dawes (who became Coolidge's Vice President) had ingenious ways of calling free-spending military officers onto the carpet. On one occasion, he summoned some of them to his office, vigorously swept his rug with two brooms, then demanded...
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