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When a reader complained that the Gazette had "been praising that old shyster," White retorted: "There are two ways of handling an opponent in politics ... to sneer at him ... to treat him fairly. . . . We have opposed [the President] now for three successive terms. . . . We are going to oppose him for a fourth term. But if, to oppose him, we have to make a more objectionable ring-tailed jackass of ourselves than nature made us, by saying that what F.D.R. does well is bad, then we shall . . . fail...
...ideals and opened the control gates to Napoleon. No longer able to maintain the fiction of personal power, Pétain handed over the destinies of the country he professed to love to the hands of a man abhorred throughout France. To Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler's Auvergne shyster, Pétain gave a dictator's power to rule by decree. For himself, Pétain succeeded in preserving at least the voice to appeal to the wavering loyalty of French soldiers in North Africa...
...Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...
From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump anyone but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors. -The Daily Kansan...
...submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted it as a new delivery...