Word: slushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following day "Jumping Joe" Ferguson, Taft's defeated opponent, sauntered amiably into the chamber to talk about Republican slush funds. Ferguson sounded more like comic relief than one of the main characters. "I'm not casting any aspirations on the reporters around here," he malapropped during one explanation, "but those newspapers in Ohio are really Republican." Explaining his own defeat, Ferguson said: "The reason I got beat so bad was that the Democrats and the working people didn't go out to vote." As an afterthought, he added with unprecedented political candor: "Of course, if they...
...carry on in the same way. He teed off with an expose of the $250 million Union Electric Co. of Missouri, which the P-D had been investigating off & on for years. With a drumfire of Page One stories, the paper detailed the operation of $600,000 U.E. slush funds, used to influence legislators, city officials and newsmen. Result: U.E. management was overturned and three top officers were convicted in federal court (lending color to an old P-D staffers' boast that "once the P-D is on your trail, there's nothing left but jail or suicide...
...auditorium of the Library of Congress. Leaders of both parties sat on the platform: Speaker Sam Rayburn, frowning at the newsreel lights; the Republicans' Kenneth Wherry, scowling over his thoughts; beetle-browed Joe Martin, wearing the rubbers he had cautiously donned to wade through Washington's slush. What did they expect? Some of them had come hoping for a kind of miracle, an authoritative sweeping-away of all confusions and doubts. What they heard was an unadorned, informal discourse delivered from one page of notes. What Eisenhower had to say was not so much a report...
...Unwavering Point. When he had finished, his audience applauded respectfully and shuffled out into the slush. Their feelings were mixed. Joe Martin was impressed. Colorado's Democratic Senator Ed Johnson cracked: "The general character of the general's report was very general." Ike had given them no ringing phrases, no new facts or figures. The discourse contained none of that Olympian reporting with which Winston Churchill was accustomed to bolster his great wartime addresses...
...this "National Education Campaign"--the American Medical Association. Listed as "top spender" under the Lobby Registration Act, the AMA spread $2 million and 55 million propaganda leaflets last year in the fight against the President's national-health program. With the largest delegation and the most envied slush fund in Washington, organized medicine can outshout you and your neighbor combined, through the echo may not get beyond the committee room...