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...important ones include the "Morse War Shipping," "Crowell Cantonment" and "Harness Frauds" cases. In the Phillips case, it happened that John L. Phillips, the leading defendant, was a former Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. In most of the cases, however, victory for the Government would have demonstrated a blot on the record of the former Democratic Administration. The fact that not one Democratic official of any prominence has been successfully prosecuted−although Democrats were in office at a time when the large and hasty expenditures of the War made graft an easy opportunity−is one of the best...
...liquor abroad and ship it to the rum fleet off the shore of the U. S. threatens to become an international incident. The Baronet's first appeal was to British investors and led to a controversy with Premier MacDonald, who referred to his activities as a "disgraceful blot" (TIME, June 9). Apparently British contributors were not forthcoming. But Sir Brodrick is not easily discouraged. His next appeal was made to Americans. He obtained a "sucker list" and mailed a glowing prospectus to the names upon it, which, under the title of "The problem of liquor and the so-called...
...marks were each worth $8,000,000, today they are worth about ¼ of a cent. A Potsdam confectioner displayed a picture of Frederick the Great in a show case. Police saw it. In they went and ordered the confectioner to remove it forthwith, stating that it was "a blot on the municipal landscape...
...citizens of the United States have such methods as will enable them to get the stuff in whenever they can with impunity," he declared, "it has nothing to do with me. What I am doing is a flea bite. Why should I be referred to as a 'disgraceful blot' for trying to meet this demand by a straight trading proposition...
...disgraceful blot" on the British 'scutcheon...