Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a political novice is what the nation needs for a change. But what do these people say about the General's glowing support for the reelection of men like McCarthy, who has not only been financially unethical--witness the Lustron case and his tax troubles--but morally dishonest as well? What kind of president do they think Eisenhower will be if he permits the likes of Jenner to vilify those things and those people he considers sacrosanct? The General has strained the theory of political unity to the point of dissolution when he makes such rapprochements in its name...
...This unholy crew," charged Truman, are trying to make corruption the big campaign issue. "I know of nobody," said he, "who has found a way to prevent some people from being . . . dishonest. If anybody has a formula, I'm sure the American Bankers Association would pay a lot to get it ... Last year there were something like 600 defalcations and embezzlements in the banks of this country. One out of every 300 bank officers was found to be crooked. And the record of the Internal Revenue Bureau is a lot better than that...
...Washington, some 25 war veterans in the State Department, claiming to speak for 7,000 veterans in the department and its foreign service, replied that they were "fed up" with "dishonest criticism" and "character assassination." At his press conference, Harry Truman said that his reply to the Legion's demand would not be printable...
Forthwith, Mayor Dreier filed a $100,000 libel suit against the Independent for running an ad which pictured him as "unscrupulous, dishonest and corrupt." When Dreier's case against the Independent came to trial, the paper was ready for him. It put on the stand a cop who testified that he had paid Dreier $50 as a down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped...
...Denver & Rio Grande (Nat Holt; Paramount) pits two rival railroads of the 1870s against each other. The Denver & Rio Grande is represented by tough, honest Edmond O'Brien, and the Canyon City & San Juan is represented by tough, dishonest Sterling Hayden. After payroll holdups, gun battles, a landslide, dynamiting and a head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol...