Word: pork-barrel
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...even under existing conditions, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull should have been able to draw from the pork-barrel a better appointment than that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut...
...Among the few exceptions: Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days of rubber-stamp legislation, 1933; pork-barrel appropriation bills...
...therefore, Mr. Roosevelt thinks he has on his hands just the old struggle to guard the treasury from pork-barrel raids, he is wrong. And what, as a politician, he does about that when he finds it out, should certainly prove instructive...
...going on here, too. The agricultural adjustment administration is telling the farmera that they can't run their own farms, and trying to make them like it. Secretary of the Interior lckes is spending $3,300,000 and doing it in a fashion that seems niggardly to the honest pork-barrel politicians. It must be paid back, says lckes, and he is from Missouri about this paying back. Cities and states must show him. A splendid row of proposed post offices, reaching from here to Siberia, is being drastically reduced. Nothing...
...Republican cartoonists whose work has helped the G. O. P. campaign are Quincy Scott of the Portland Oregonian and Vaughn Richard Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News. With ideas better than execution Cartoonist Scott has specialized on the economic aspects of the race while Cartoonist Shoemaker keeps thumping the "pork-barrel." The latter, aged 30, taught cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for eight years...