Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others did, last week, principally Samuel Insull, greatest of midwest utility potentates. Mr. Insull's competitor, in a comparatively smaller way is Senator W. B. McKinley, recently defeated in the Republican primaries...
...winning Smith campaign to the tune of $500,000. The Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made only two statements for newspaper publication...
Pennsylvania. To the major irregularities of civic conduct in Pennsylvania-the primary slush funds and Governor Pinchot's petticoat "supergovernment" with the W. C. T. U. (TIME, July 5, CRIME)-may be added a minor sideshow at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. The Sesquicentennial itself will probably come out on the wrong side of the ledger, but Philadelphians are consoled by the knowledge that local politicians will profit handsomely in real estate adjacent to the exhibition site, which it was their august privilege to select...
...fuselage and landing gear. Tuned to a new perfection, loaded with 3,000 lb. of freight* and 290 gallons of extra gasoline, she responded with a twelve-cylinder roar to Pilot Carl B. Eielson's cry for "Contact!" Ice on the runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins...
...estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany the "mother" as "growlers." Then eventually all disappear into slush. The Tampa or Modoc is free to find another...