Word: dishonestly
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...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...
...President, only deepen the mystery of Grant's personality, although they reveal more clearly than any previous work the character of his weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit of his friends, Author Nevins clearly establishes his thesis that Grant looked on the Presidency as "a reward not a responsibility." Loyal...
What justification is offered by the Government, or by the New Deal, or by Mr. Farley for all this? To me as an average U. S. citizen it is just plain dishonest...
...Drearily dishonest is the average U. S. Protestant minister. He pads his church membership list by about 25%. Of the names he keeps on it, 8% are those of dead people. On an average Sunday he preaches to a house 70% empty. On that Sunday nine out of every ten people in the U. S. either go to a Catholic church or go to none...
Little faith in human nature has National Surety Corp., which insures companies against losses caused by dishonest employees, burglars, holdup-men and forgers. Little faith in corporate nature has many a stockholder and creditor of National Surety Co., predecessor concern of National Surety Corp. The Company did nicely calculating the odds on other people's employees' yielding to temptation, became the largest fidelity & surety insurance outfit in the U. S. In 1928 it took in $18,000,000 on its bonding business, made nearly $2,000,000 profit on investments, paid $1,500,000 in dividends. Meanwhile...