Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another. In America the man of average income has, perhaps, turned to the stock exchange because of the prohibition of various forms of gambling. If the speculative tendencies of our people could be turned into other channels, this instinct might be satisfied without far-reaching economic consequences. . . .* The real evil in this situation is that the resulting speculation affects the national economy...
Commissioner MacCormick's clean-up was a windfall for Vanity Fair which got its February issue on the newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid. Its author was a onetime deputy Commissioner of Correction, Joseph Fulling Fishman, who calls Welfare Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal...
When these evil smelling questions were put to Commissioner Van Schaick on the witness stand he answered frankly that: 1) in some cases the laws were inadequate. 2) The insurance department was woefully understaffed. Twice he had been forced to borrow personally money to pay temporary examiners until State funds were voted. His small staff had not discovered the most glaring irregularities until after the companies were taken over. 3) He had believed (and his opinion was backed at the time by the biggest Manhattan bankers) that the closing of the big Manhattan mortgage companies would precipitate a nation-wide...
...star under which Robert Hayes Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David was beginning to put a misty two & two together, and only his sound...