Word: dishonestly
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...Francisco. Recently San Francisco newspapers screamed in big type: PRESIDENT OF STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER INDICTMENT. To casual readers it of course suggested malpractice, dishonesty, perhaps collapse of the Exchange. To people familiar with the case, however, it seemed more an unfortunate technicality. Two dishonest employes of the Bank of Italy had been operating "dummy"' accounts through the firm of Leib, Keyston & Co., whose senior partner. George N. Keyston, California socialite, is president of the Exchange. Other San Francisco brokers, claiming the firm could not have known these accounts were false, refused to receive customers who wanted to switch from...
...that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year later he had become a super-politician, beardless, monocled, fastidiously draped, who had gigantically dishonest deals as far as South America, had acquired M. Castel-Benac's office and was about to acquire M. Castel-Benac's dutiful Suzv...
...religious teaching. While praising the Bible Professor Holmes advocates ridding the modern man of the necessity of a formal acceptance of many "mediaeval superstitions" in which the great organized churches persist. "The modern mind cannot and does not accept them actually, so we have the unfortunate and essentially dishonest situation of thousands professing to believe what they do not really believe...
...victim of political campaigns to elect honest Democrats by proving how dishonest Republicans were...
...That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...