Word: rankest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance, cramming Indiana's "birds of a feather...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...
...recent reappointment of Haines, henchman of the Anti-Saloon League, to the direction of Prohibition enforcement in the United States seems to have been a piece of the rankest and most craven political expediency. It was contrary to the advice of General Andrews; it was contrary to the wishes of the cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient...
...effort you and your following have made to nullify and tear down the 18th Amendment is treason of the rankest sort, and if ever a person deserved death at the hands of an outraged public you certainly deserve...
...answers Charlie, "I'm not one of the rankest...