Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was not enough to soothe foreign pride. When over the categorical denial of President John S. Allard of Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.. it was proved that the latter's firm had paid "palm oil" to Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia, protests continued pouring in. Within a few days Secretary Hull had no less than 15 on his hands. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced that it had been reported to him that Latin Americans, sensitive about bribe-taking, would cancel all U. S. trade contracts unless the Senate investigation was conducted more privately. Chilean Minister...
...ring of Communists broke into mournful Red songs, boos and shouts. Then they dug into paper bags and sent a hail of ripe tomatoes whistling at Sir Oswald. His voice rising to a near-scream, Fascist Mosley replied: "Behind these hooligans are alien Jewish financiers, supplying them with palm...
...hands of contractors, ready for razing, was Palm Beach's straggling yellow 40-year-old Royal Poinciana, most famed of Florida hotels, largest frame building...
...entertainment above ennoblement, Eadie should be an entrancing heroine. From a Midwest roadhouse, where her stepfather urges her to be obliging to his patrons, her desire for advancement carries her to a Manhattan penthouse where, at an orgy, she meets T. R. Paige (Lionel Barrymore). She trails him to Palm Beach and there scrambles into a romance with his son (Franchot Tone), who advertises unsuccessfully the advantages of misbehavior...
While President Roosevelt has been boasting of the non-partisan character of his Administration, Jim Farley has been adroitly staffing the Government with deserving Democrats-and nobody else. He has found, for instance, that he can palm off almost anyone on Attorney General Cummings but that Relief Administrator Hopkins is excessively choosey about who goes on his payroll. Despite Washington mutterings at the potentialities of scandal, the Farley appointments have been no better, no worse than those of preceding Republican administrations. Human nature being what it is. Mr. Farley has made isolated mistakes but by & large the new Democratic jobholders...