Word: dishonestly
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...inevitable shifts in population?one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...
...Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison initiated the renaissance of the Guaranty Trust Co.* The bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...
Largely ignoring smugglers and moonshiners, Major Mills maintained that 98% of bootleggers' supplies came from the diversion of industrial alcohol. Suppose, for example, that a manufacturer of perfumes has a permit to possess large quantities of denatured alcohol. Were he dishonest, he might sell this alcohol, labelled as "perfume," to an equally dishonest wholesaler. Then the wholesaler sells the "perfume" to a bootlegger, who re-distills the alcohol and uses it, sparingly, in the making of intoxicants. Seeing in such diversion of industrial alcohol the major source of bootleggers' supplies, Major Mills recommended closer inspection of permit holders...
When the president of a $10,000,000 concern resigns it is usually for one of these reasons: 1) he is old, stockholders demand younger blood; 2) he is inefficient, stockholders demand bigger returns; 3) he is dishonest, stockholders demand integrity; 4) he is unwanted, there has been a merger. But when Fred W. Ramsey, president of the Cleveland Metal Products Co. resigned six years ago he was neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention...