Word: dishonestly
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...Evans "dishonest?" Did Mr. Wrigley deserve a Christian eulogy? Last week these questions interested The Christian Century, best written and most alert Protestant magazine in the U. S. Far from accusing Mr. Wrigley of breaking commandments, The Christian Century hastened to say that "We know nothing particularly damaging about Mr. Wrigley, if he is to be judged in the perspective of contemporary civilization." Nevertheless it took the occasion to point a stern moral...
...again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came in contact were scheming and dishonest and that no business affairs should ever be discussed with them...
...Seabury report is not a more indictment of New York politicians. To be sure, it shows that Mayor Walker is no altruistic "servant of the people." And it definitely states that the dealings of a great number of the city officials have been shady, if not actually dishonest. It gives conclusive evidence of the misgovernment by which Tammany leaders have amassed fortunes, while candidly it has set forth the relations of certain officers with bootlegging and organized crime. Further, the present financial condition of New York is attributed to "the waste, graft, and corruption with which the city is infested...
...From this, Dr. Flexner's chief present concern, he took time last week once more to flay Columbia and Chicago. They, said he, "and many State universities, go into the marketplace, advertising their wretched claptrap in newspapers and in magazines. Some of these activities are little short of dishonest...
...Edward George Seubert, president of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and chairman of the Institute's marketing division, raged last week against a new racket: gasoline bootlegging. "Gaslegging" is the method of dishonest gasoline retailers who set up mushroom service stations and pocket the 3¢ or 4¢ tax levied by the State on each gallon of gas. Illinois estimates it is being defrauded of $1,000,000 a month, Pennsylvania, an equal amount. The national loss was said to run between $15,000,000 and $50,000,000 yearly, the threat to the legitimate gasoline market was so serious that...