Word: morese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years after the act "contra bonos mores" was committed, two and a half years after the first indictments were made, two old men went on criminal trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court last week. They are charged with a conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing...
The mores in this Republic require that the 48 sovereign states at periodic intervals should produce a species of humans which the press heroically calls Standard Bearers. After one and one-third centuries of experiment the states have decided that only governors and senators qualify for such a title. The...
"On the stage it is the same way. The highest paid actors are not the Barry-mores or the Otis Skinners. The five highest paid actors in American are Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fred Stone, and Ed Wynn--all comedians."
1) That the payment of $100,000 (made without security, carried in a black satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a...
Secretary Wilbur transmitted news of these discoveries to the Senate by letter in response to the first of seven resolutions introduced in the Senate by Nebraskan Norris demanding that seven departments report whether former Cabinet officers or Senators have acted as attorneys in claim cases within two years after they...