Word: graftings
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...Ages sturdy husbandmen have grumbled at the tithes which thousands of them still have to pay to the Church of England. Last week 200,000 farmers, mostly in the southern counties, startled England by announcing, "We have banded together to protect ourselves from the effects of this 16th Century graft...
...Graft? The Department of the Interior has never quite lived down the bad name Albert Bacon Fall gave it as a result of the oil scandals a decade ago. When honest Harold Ickes took office, he promised the country he would not be "the black sheep" of the Cabinet. Yet, like everyone else, he knows perfectly well that three billion Federal dollars cannot be poured out of the Treasury without some of it spilling over improperly. Day & night he reiterates his determination to keep graft out of his Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides...
...burns. Doris, while toddling on her father's ranch, stumbled into a bed of hot ashes. When her burned hands healed, one was a crumple. Doctors of Colorado Springs Beth-El General Hospital recently untwisted the infant's fingers and palm, last week were getting ready to graft skin where needed and useful...
...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
...future time you have occasion to refer to the poultry industry you would confer a favor upon the dealers in dressed poultry if you would make it clear that the dressed poultry industry is free from racketeering and graft, and is conducted on strictly legitimate lines...