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...bitterly opposed to voting a $4,000,000,000 slush-fund to this Administration to be spent in the future as so much of this money has been spent in the past. ... I deeply and sincerely regret that this body has degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nit-wits...
...Saarbrücken hard-jawed Hermann Röchling, Nazi industrialist, and reputed slush fund paymaster, snorted "Germany will not interfere with Saar Jews, Socialists and Communists! I suppose they will leave the Saar." After sleeping on this the Saar steel magnate said next day, according to a correspondent of London's Sunday Express, "A certain number of Communists will be sent to camps, unless they are converted into honest people. The 40,000 Saar unemployed will be mustered into the German Labor Front and set to building public works. A few foolish clergymen will be removed-by their...
...rosa expenditures by France and Germany, if each be found to have spent as much as the other charged, would pay a good part of Europe's War Debt. Neutral guessers figured the monster slush-funds around $50,000,000. Thus each ballot cost perhaps...
...matter which should be as simple as the shooting of a couple of mad dogs involves the constant bombast of attorneys, the endless slush of newspaper columns, and the preparing of a jury for its labors by taking it en bloc to a baseball game...
...collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal Club should take this situation in hand...