Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What would McGranery do about corruption in Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...
...Senate subcommittee investigating the right of Joe McCarthy to hold his Senate seat was doing just fine-carefully accomplishing nothing, in the proper election-year spirit-if Joe had only had the sense to keep quiet. But McCarthy bulled his way into the act, charging that the subcommittee was "dishonest," that its expenses were "picking the pockets of the taxpayers." That led to a heated debate in the Senate last week on whether or not to continue the investigation...
Cuba's freewheeling democrats operated according to the rule, stated by a former Grau minister: "It's a credit to you if you're honest, but it's no great discredit if you're dishonest." Everybody helped himself. Senators who had spent half a million buying enough votes to win got their investment back in millions. For the President's congressional pals, there was a $4,000,000-a-month ration from the state lottery pork barrel. Sticky-fingered politicos picked up fortunes on contracts, customs deals, sugar quota allocations...
...evidence of the questionable ethics and anti-social values of a sizable group of doctors suggests that it might be profitable to inquire into the membership requirements and standards of the A.M.A., as well as their propaganda techniques . . . The consumer of medical services should have some protection against the dishonest doctor...
...among the many whom the income tax did not affect, but I argued against it as being dishonest. I was told that it was a small tax and should not worry anyone, even the millionaires, but I insisted that it was essentially dishonest and could become confiscatory. Nobody heeded me. I was right. Poor old John Q. Public, the perennial sucker-who almost elected W. J. Bryan, who elected F. D. Roosevelt again and again and again, and who put Harry Truman into office-had better wake...