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First the House fastened its teeth to the $29 billion omnibus appropriation bill. The more the House looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just too much to digest; besides, members had been getting letters from constituents demanding an end to reckless spending. With more courage than it had shown all year, the House put its jaws to work...
Former County Assessor George Clark, Binaggio's political ally, had carried on a tax-fixing racket, said the grand jury, which described it as "the most sordid and vicious situation existing in Jackson County." Tens of thousands of dollars were extorted by threatening to jack up the taxes of legitimate businessmen, or jacking them up and offering to lower them for a fee. "One arrogant racketeer, feeling that a prominent businessman had not been polite to him, had the businessman's real-estate assessment tripled." When the businessman apologized and let the racketeer open a charge account...
...York City sir: ... I was surprised and disgusted to find those sordid paintings...
Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...
...Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed, ragged youngsters, while a commentator described a sordid way of life that added up to virtual peonage...