Word: ill-gotten
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...smuggling of diamonds. How unsuccessful this organization has been may be understood from the complaints of reputable jewelers. Pointing out that they must pay 20% duty on cut diamonds and 10% duty on uncut ones, they show that disreputable jewelers, who buy from smugglers, can undersell them with ill-gotten gems. It is alleged that $40,000,000 changes hands yearly in diamond smuggling commerce; and the reputable jewelers have lately suggested the solution, highly insulting to the customs officials, that since the duties cannot be enforced, a return be made to the 1909 tariff rates...
...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...
...will be Belgium's fourth king. Leopold I (1790-1865) was of course Queen Victoria's "wise uncle Leopold." Leopold II (1835-1909) was an uncle of the present king, Albert I, and although notoriously dissolute, and the ruthless exploiter of the Congo, spent much of his ill-gotten wealth on public buildings and improvements in Belgium...
...ill-gotten surplus capital acquired by exploiting the resources and the people of our country begets the imperialism which hunts down and exploits the natural resources and the people of foreign countries, erects huge armaments for the protection of its investments, breeds international strife in the markets of the world, and inevitably leads...
...interesting interview contained a statement concerning Mussolini which is worthy of comment. He said "If his political methods had been as sound as his economic policies, he would rank as the greatest statesman of modern times." With many others Prof. Carver shares the idea that Mussolini's power was ill-gotten"; as a matter of fact, the greater part of the American press has thought substantially along the same line. Of course it would be ridiculous for me to defend seizure of authority by force of arms as a general policy, but I believe that censure of such action under...