Word: dishonestly
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...Senator more applause than it gave Eisenhower himself. As Ike began to speak, McCarthy, who knew what was coming from a talk with Ike the previous evening, ducked back into the train. Said Ike: "The purposes that [McCarthy] and I have of ridding the Government of the incompetents, the dishonest and, above all, the subversive and disloyal are one & the same. Our differences, therefore, have nothing to do with the end result that we are seeking. The differences apply to method...
...These years have indeed been a harrowing time in our history. It has been a time of both honest illusion and dishonest betrayal-both terribly costly. It has been a time that should have taught us, with cold finality, the truth about freedom and Communism...
...Cover) I know of nobody who has found a way to prevent some people from being . . . dishonest . . . 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 Bureau of Internal Revenue is a lot better than that...
There is little point in assuming that the Currey faction wants official status now that the Lampoon has taken charge. If there were, Dean Watson's observation, that "there wouldn't be any point in parallel organizations," and the Currey faction's somewhat dishonest machinations would at first seem logical arguments for denying the Southerners recognition...
...scoffed at corruption as a take issue. "We always have scandals and rascals, not in government alone, but also in business. Newspapers have said a lot about crooked internal revenue collectors, but little about dishonest bank clerks, it is a perennial problem in any administration...