Word: deviousness
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...Londoners sniffed a more devious trail leading to the sudden appearance of little Vicar Jardine at Monts last week. It is well known that one of the things that has most distressed Queen Mary in recent weeks has been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop...
...believers in the committee as an administrative form are Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In operating efficiency the two show considerable variation. Dating back to the days when the late John Davison Rockefeller met almost daily with his partners to chart the devious course of the old Oil Trust, Standard's devotion to committees is even carried into executive functions. Standard's president is chief executive officer but there is also an active, working chairman. For a long time this executive team has been President Walter Clark Teagle and Chairman William...
...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...