Word: round-about
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...trouble with this round-about method of checking corruption and waste is that it offers a temptation to those of our newspapers who prefer to create excitement rather than to publish facts. No sooner is a committee formed to probe affairs of public interest than the newspapers prepare for an orgy of "startling disclosures", for blazing headlines containing the names of men in the highest ranks of public and private life. For an expectant reading-public there are graphic accounts of untold wealth secured by graft, of prosperous men off to prison, via the hastily called Grand Juries. All this...