Word: plums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some esteemed even the duty of Congressmen to secure, each for his constituency, the finest, fattest, most expensive public building that he could wheedle out of his colleagues and the Federal fisc. So, in a spirit of sympathetic cooperation, Congressmen would get together, each handing the other a perfect plum of a public edifice. The press of those parts of the country where the plums did not fall called this "log-rolling," called it "pork...
After a lusty wrangle, Jean Borotra, the oldest French boy, subdued Rene LaCoste, pulled out the men's singles plum. "Vinnie" Richards, feeling better, joined with Francis T. Hunter to sit on R. Norris Williams and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard graduates), until they cried "Down" in the doubles...
...controlling the common stock of the Western Electric) acquired the exclusive right to sell broadcasting transmission sets. The Radio Corporation got the right to operate trans-Atlantic radio stations and ship-to-shore communication, and to sell amateur receiving apparatus. The General Electric and the Westinghouse got the plum of manufacturing amateur receiving apparatus, 60% going to the former, 40% to the latter. This was because the General Electric owned the majority stock of the Radio Corporation and controlled important inventions...
...Democratic National Committee, 53 males and 53 females, assembled in Washington to dispose of a valuable plum, the Democratic National Convention of 1924. A debt of about $160,000 remaining from the campaign of 1920 hung over the head of 106 members. A profitable disposal of the plum was essential...
...attention lavished upon a plum...