Word: slushing
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...since the public seems to think that soldiers are simple asses, drooling slush in the face of machine-gun fire, we offer the following copyrighted 'Dear Mom' letters direct from the front...
Boldness was indicated. The meeting was called for 3 o'clock in a conference room of Oslo's Deichman Library. Along the slush-filled Moellergaten, past the Swedish Church and the grim Gestapo prison at No. 19, crowds splashed all day. From all over the city, underground editors filtered quietly through the throng toward the library...
...identical bill-the Senators hastily slapped it back on a subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great detail about slush funds, special pressures on Congressmen's home-town law firms, and a flood of almost identical letters to legislators...
...years of Manhattan practice have not dented his Carolina drawl, was all set to sound off about ''smear campaigns" and "lies."* But shrewd Joe O'Mahoney snapped him off when he had no more than shouted "They is none" in answer to a query about the slush fund. The Senator was more interested in other facts. Some of the facts he was after...
...jailing of famed Boss Tom Pendergast for income-tax evasion. The criminal aspects of that case are more typical of the low state of Missouri politics than of the manner in which fire underwriters normally win friends and influence legislatures. Pendergast & Co. were convicted of collecting large slush funds for supporting the fire companies in a rate fight. The more pertinent facts: 1) since 1922, Missouri has been trying to enforce a 10% reduction in rates; 2) since 1930 it has been trying to collect (for Missouri policyholders) a 16⅔% rate increase the industry put through in that year...