Word: pork-barrel
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Against some of these criticisms West Pointer Gregory had a fair defense if he had been free to talk. Camp sites are not picked by the Corps itself but by Corps Area boards which have only one Quartermaster Corps member. Picking is almost invariably complicated by pork-barrel politics. Moreover, Congressional dawdling with emergency measures forced the Corps to start its big program much too late, made it take heroic measures for speed. So costs were skyrocketed by high wages, strikes, tremendous bills for overtime...
...Scores of highway, rivers & harbors, waterworks and pension pork-barrel bills...
...became Senator from Catamarca Province. His legislative record consisted of pork-barrel projects and the world's best bankruptcy law. In January 1936, President Agustin P. Justo made him Minister of Justice, later Minister of the Interior. His most notable accomplishment in that office was the establishment of the still-existent Argentine postal censorship. In June 1937 he resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency on the coalition ticket headed by Roberto M. Ortiz. Ortiz was a Radical whom the Conservatives thought they could handle, Castillo a Conservative who was considered harmless by the Radicals. Nobody could foresee then...
...relations by such use of the funds. The federal and College administrators both favor the proposal; the special committee set up by the University will do well to give it a thought when the decisions are being made as to which demands are for "useful purposes" and which are pork-barrel...
...Treasury tax returns showed 58% larger than 1939's; signed a bill providing $375,000,000 to continue WPA until July 1, subjected 16 more critical war materials to export license control; slashed by 55% the Army Engineers' $366,808,925 recommendations for 619 juicy rivers-&-harbors pork-barrel projects. Twice at press conferences he endeavored to quiet fears that labor strikes were now impeding or would soon impede defense progress...