Word: octopus
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...undemocratic principle. Ever since the Civil War, perhaps before, politicians and pinks have had a feeling that business men were committing heinous crimes, continually breaking the law, but that they always managed to get away with it through the cleverness of their lawyers, who found holes through which any octopus could jump...
...Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...
...Angeles after a fortnight of fun in Hawaii was Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. While bathing and basking in the sun there, he ran afoul Naval regulations by taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...
...what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon be acted on, that the bill would be passed-not as originally drafted giving the Securities & Exchange...
...protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...