Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with other big G. O. P. traders at the convention. Candidate Lowden did not file in Indiana, and therefore, since Lowden admirers realize that a vote for Lowden is virtually a vote for Dawes anyway, the Watson support in Indiana will be a Watson-Lowden-Dawes vote...
Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
...produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...
...remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...trustees of St. Mark's and Groton schools, and has been a Fellow of Harvard since 1913. Mr. Moors is the senior member of the broker firm of Moors and Cabot and president of the Public School Association. Mr. Perkins has practiced law in Boston since 1894 and is vice-president of the firm of Ropes., Gray, Boyden, and Perkins. Mr. Curtis is also a Boston lawyer. Mr. Smith was with the American Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department, and at the close of the Great War was prominent in establishing Hungary's finances...