Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Murphy was no shrinking violet. Last April he charged into the Midwest to be in at the Pendergast kill, taking with him G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, a great hand for being in on the kill himself. Everywhere Frank Murphy and John Edgar Hoover went they looked like Good, battling...
...corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated on a New Deal "dream ticket" for 1940: Roosevelt & Murphy...
...didn't give a continental damn!" fumed Mr. Treadway. Dr. Francis Everett Townsend conceded that his new bill would immediately give oldsters only $50 instead of the long-promised $200 a month, knew that 100 (out of 435) votes for it would be a fair score, 125 good, 175 phenomenal...
...secretary, had not believed them. He also confirmed the report that he once told Mark Megladdery to use State funds to pay $150 in back taxes for Sister Ann Merriam, who runs a private school in Los Angeles. (According to testimony, Secretary Megladdery thought it "would not look good," paid instead with a rubber check, and Miss Merriam eventually ponied up for herself.) Mark Megladdery already had admitted to taking $500 from Barman Bent, insisted it was a campaign contribution...
Dodger Bergdoll said he had returned to pay up, be with his family and raise them as good Americans. He may not have that privilege. The Army may retry, resentence him for his escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...