Word: crookedness
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But there are some ominously familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who...
Van Meegeren was actually tickled to get only one year in jail. "Two years," he told a reporter, "is the maximum punishment for such a thing. I know because I looked it up in our laws twelve years ago, before I started all this. But sir, I'm sure...
The paper protests of the U.S. Government against crooked elections in Poland and Hungary or against Petkoff's condemnation make the dullest Communist leaders just laugh, because they know as well as you that the U.S. Government is neither prepared nor willing to back its protests by that which...
No crooked legs, no black eye
Mr. Leech is pretty bitter about my picturing a few Congressmen as crooks and undesirables. Now I didn't make this stuff up. . . . Mr. Leech's own paper informed me that, within [recent] months, two U.S. Congressmen have been declared officially crooked. . . .