Word: conned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Clemmer asked his convicts what they admired in their leaders, he obtained a great range of answers, including: "courage, generosity, modesty, education, an interesting vocabulary, personal cleanliness, clever gambling, the ability to 'con' (fool) officials, a reputation for holding liquor, possession of money ... a large body of knowledge about a particular technique of crime, a fund of vulgar jokes or songs, the possession of attitudes against the judiciary, the prison administration, the parole board and God, demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after...
...CON T. SHEA...
...thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
Questions on current labor problems elicited the following statement, "I believe profoundly in unionization and collective bargaining: that's the only way labor con meet capital on common ground. As for the A. F. of L. fight with the C. I. O.--that's a family squabble, and not for me to meddle...
...Portland, Ore., 245 printers on the Oregonian, News-Telegram and Journal went back to work after their five-day strike failed to win them a seven-hour day. The three papers ceased publication, cut local news off four big newspaper-con-trolled radio stations, persuaded neighboring publishers to send in no additional out-of-town papers. Starved for news and surfeited with months of lumber and teamsters' strikes, Portland had little sympathy for the printers. Portland editorial men, strongly non-Guild, offered no help, so the strikers had little choice but to accept the publishers' pre-strike offer...