Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well primed was the Mayor last week when a representative of the United Parents Association appeared at City Hall to protest that school washrooms were shy on soap and towels. Blazed the Mayor: "Any time the Board of Education has the courage to cut out its rotten, dishonest custodian system, we'll be able to give the children what they need. Go to any principal and point out uncleanliness in a school and he'll turn pale and say 'My God, I can't help it. I have no power over the janitors.' I never...
...indeed, but unfortunately this reminds us that the Post Office Department is a Federal affair under the jurisdiction of the President, and that throughout Mr. Roosevelt's choppy career, he has been making speeches, as he alone knows how, about the corruption of the Civil Service under the incredibly dishonest Republican Regime. Sincerity, as the President himself so neatly put it, must be proved by deed as well as by word...
Next week, when Father TIME counts the newsstand circulation noses he will find at least one missing whose sense of smell was too acute to miss a bit of sloppy or dishonest reporting...
Finally, in the reign of Roosevelt, the pinks and politicians found a way out of this horrible situation. They would pass a law against all business men, set up a commission to enforce it, appoint a commissioner who would have sense enough to enforce it only against dishonest people who under fair and just laws could get corporation lawyers to weasel them out. The Securities Exchange Commission was founded; Mr. Kennedy was made Commissioner; he co-operated with, helped, encouraged honest business; at the same time, he had dishonest fly-by-nighters, sly corporation lawyers under his thumb...
...other public place except a comfort station for the past four years: the bad girl with the heart of gold; the dipsomaniac writer; the hero pining for his lost love who makes her appearance in time's nick; the shady financier; the cuckold with his wife and her dishonest lover and all the rest. However, in China Seas this familiar crew has a new and entertaining bag of tricks to display...