Word: devious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Cleveland to New York, Standard Oil would not only get back 50? in rebate, it would also get 5? for each barrel shipped by competitors. All this was wrathfully exposed time & again but after each outburst of public indignation, Rockefeller quietly worked out new and more devious arrangements with the railroads, tumbling more competitors into...
...Whitney, in his letter to you printed today, implies that the drive for funds to pay for an ambulance to be sent to Spain is only a guise by which radicals are collecting money for some devious purpose of their...
...country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph of the devious political path of a Progressive of Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Class of 1912, and an all-but-extinct type of "personal journalism...
...subservience, at any rate, is assured. The photograph, p. 24, of Matriarch Mary with Queen Elizabeth "well in hand" is the most expressive picture of the week. To see it is to understand at a glance the devious story of Edward's unprecedented behavior. In "most vulgar" American, or in any language, that expression on the Queen Mother's face spells "Meddlesome Interferiority." My only consolation is that TIME'S preview has cleared up much of the "Mystery of the Coronation." If Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy...
...least interested in making the world safe for Trotsky, or in seeing Stalin murdered, or vice versa, was TIME in reporting as clearly and objectively as possible the devious, contradictory, altogether "Russian" propaganda trial of Old Bolsheviks...