Word: dishonestly
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...mayor, Ezekiel Cobb comports himself like a combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have...
Girl X: She called the editor of our school paper "radical and intellectually dishonest...
...underestimating the effect of the financial panic on American securities and particularly on the companies I was working so hard to build. "I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment but not dishonest manipulations. ". . . You only know the charges of the prosecution. Not one word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will...
Barbara Stanwyck as "Gambling Lady" successfully plays her way through an unusually complex plot. Her father, Mike, the "last of the honest gamblers," commits suicide, in preference to turning dishonest, when he goes broke. Lady Lee gets a job with a crooked gambling syndicate and despite all temptations, she always plays on the square. While playing poker for the syndicate, on Park Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find...
...vote. In spite of the postponement order another election was held last week in the plant and the votes counted by certified public accountants. The vote was 3,152 for the company union, 1,995 for the A. F. of L. Organized Labor screamed that the election was dishonest. The company admitted that it had paid for printing the ballots, hired the accountants to audit the result, but insisted that the election had been held by orders of the representatives of its employes. General Johnson countered with the emphatic assurance that a new election would be held...