Word: honester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persisted a picture of billions of idle dollars. More & more public spending, in the absence of private investment, is known to be Mr. Roosevelt's sorcery against this old nightmare, as always before. Last week, therefore, observers were not surprised to see his Secretary of the Interior, "Honest Harold" Ickes.- master of PWA, appear on Capitol Hill before the Relief bill subcommittee...
...Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters in exactly the language I would use. I snooped one time, and there were the letters just as I would have...
Colonel Lawrence confessed: "It was evident that if we won the war these promises would be dead paper, and had I been an honest adviser of the Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives for such stuff. But I salved myself with the hope that by leading these Arabs madly in a final victory I would establish them with arms in a position so assured (if not dominant) that expediency would counsel a fair settlement of their claims...
...cold feet about Pat Reed's story, showed it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was "requested" not to broadcast it. Mad as hops was Pat Reed, who had expected to turn an honest penny with his radio yarn. Said he: "NBC is controlled by the Government anyway...
...elected alderman I have been deluged with requests for contributions from [religious and charitable] organizations who never before asked me for gifts Now I would like to post this question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...