Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What justification is offered by the Government, or by the New Deal, or by Mr. Farley for all this? To me as an average U. S. citizen it is just plain dishonest...
...Drearily dishonest is the average U. S. Protestant minister. He pads his church membership list by about 25%. Of the names he keeps on it, 8% are those of dead people. On an average Sunday he preaches to a house 70% empty. On that Sunday nine out of every ten people in the U. S. either go to a Catholic church or go to none...
Little faith in human nature has National Surety Corp., which insures companies against losses caused by dishonest employees, burglars, holdup-men and forgers. Little faith in corporate nature has many a stockholder and creditor of National Surety Co., predecessor concern of National Surety Corp. The Company did nicely calculating the odds on other people's employees' yielding to temptation, became the largest fidelity & surety insurance outfit in the U. S. In 1928 it took in $18,000,000 on its bonding business, made nearly $2,000,000 profit on investments, paid $1,500,000 in dividends. Meanwhile...
...Kentucky, tired of claims of dishonest election counts by precinct officials, passed a law requiring that four padlocks be placed on all ballot boxes, that the boxes be carried to county seats and counted there by county election boards on the day following the election. In 1932 that 24-hour delay did not keep anyone in the U. S. from knowing that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been overwhelmingly elected President of the U. S. the day before...
Assuming the permanent, or continued break-down of the capitalist system, assuming that politicians of the future will show themselves as to-tally unintelligent, dishonest, and incompetent as politicians of the past, assuming that leaders in business continues to defend monopoly and lying advertisement and tariffs and liberty without law, then the best thing to do seems at least to insure that the innocent victims of such activity be provided for by the Government...