Word: ill-gotten
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...Born Yesterday" begins and ends in the comfortable Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...
...free enterprise of the twenties." But the injustice was not the fault of free enterprise at all. Cartels, tariffs, monopolies: these injustices of the twenties, and the thirties and forties, too, are all based upon the stifling of free enterprise. The beneficiaries of these devices, when challenged with their ill-gotten gains, habitually call upon free enterprise to sanctify them. Many reformers have never checked the validity of this stand, but simply condemned free enterprise because "big business" seemed to be in favor of it. Had the Republicans of 1932 offered to sweep away all tariffs, or discontinue all subsidies...
...that war aim as our strategy, the defense of this island takes on a new form. Britain becomes the rallying point of revolutionary forces all over Europe and beyond its frontiers. . . . The Nazi offensive against plutocracy is finished: the new German plutocrats stand suddenly on the defensive guarding their ill-gotten gains against the revolutionary fury of the oppressed peoples...
...jail, he was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson for contempt of court. Four months later, the Federal Government rose from an examination of his riches and with a straight face made the statement that Capone had illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment buried...