Word: pork
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well as the pennies, the public funds will be in a large measure wasted. The periodic investigations...
...present juncture the most important concern of Congress should be settling the social unrest that is undermining our national existence. What the people want from Washington is peace, prosperity and production. What they are getting is pork, politics and piffile...
...does not hedge on the issues facing the nation; there is no beating around the bush. He suggests the budget system as a vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts...
After January 12, Saturday is to be a porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork...
...rate the long and short of the matter is that baked beans must be preserved even if the pork law has to be changed for their benefit. For just as Milwaukee is noted for its beer, and Detroit for its Ford, so, too, Boston is known on account of the bean. Any blow at its prestige is a slap at Boston. Indeed, Daniel was cast into the lions' den for not bowing before Darius' idol; if the commissioners had erred they might have suffered similarly and as a penalty for snubbing the sacred bean they would doubtless have been cast...