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Word: venalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jordan L. Golding--Judy Goldman (Wisconsin) in mind that these fellows are more exposed to bribery and corruption than anyone else employed in this kind of administration. The interpreter is a figure as important in military and internal administration, and often as venal, as the dragoman in the days of the old Turk in Constantinople...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1948 JUBILEE GUESTS | 5/22/1945 | See Source »

Editorialist Jennings Perry "is a sorry, unworthy, despicable character-a venal and licentious scribbler" whose "hifaluting way" of writing about Greek culture does not show "enough knowledge of Greek to qualify him to open a restaurant. . . . Just as one would expect of a wanderoo. He has the brains of a quagga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanderoo v. Relic | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...decade of implacable struggle to foist its Weltanschauung on Roman Cathoolics, Nazi Germany has assaulted the Church with lurid charges. It has smeared the priesthood as a venal, immoral, politically intriguing, traitorous "black international." Last week came the most vicious charge of all: that the Church started World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Germany v. Vatican | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Barred from the courtroom was the unpleasant truth: that Judge Meaney was a protégé of notorious Jersey Boss Frank Hague, that he had been appointed by the President in a deal for Hague votes next fall, that the Senate had venally confirmed the venal appointment, despite an impassioned protest by venerable Senator George Norris. Less polite than the courtroom dialogue was George Norris's comment: "[If the nation were not busy with war] the Meaney nomination would spread over the country like wildfire, and would bring about the defeat of any official who had anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Jersey Justice | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because the Christian Fronter also buys soap." Next he smacked the lordly commentators. "Four destroyers went down the ways a couple of days ago. They weren't built by radio commentators. . . ." Corwin said radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hate? | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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