Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge may be dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
Everyone knows that most professional sports have now become rackets. Boxing, baseball, all kinds of racing are infested with dishonest men. Poultry raising has not yet been considered among rackets, nor should it be. But last week there came rumors that wickedness, like a greedy red fox, had invaded even the hencoops...
...inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...
...Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison initiated the renaissance of the Guaranty Trust Co.* The bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...