Word: webster
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...consolation, moral standards in Washington have rarely been higher than they are today. For most of the last century, many famous politicians were plainly crooks. During Andrew Jackson's fight against the Second Bank of the U.S., Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun sold their votes and oratory to the bank. In the Civil War, great fortunes were hatched from corrupt federal contracts. Early in the 20th century, the National Association 'of Manufacturers bought Congressmen and influenced appointments to key committees. Nothing since has matched the gall of Harding's Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall...
Meanwhile, sophomore goalie John Cosentino, making his first start, was turning in some nice saves in the Harvard net. Bill Bennett was also doing a bang up job of thwarting Cornell attackman Mark Webster, second in the league in scoring last year. Webster netted only one goal...
...second British emissary, William Whitlock, arrived in early March, prepared to offer Webster's Anguillians precisely what they had desired in 1967. But it was two years too late: Anguilla was by now fully committed to self-government and independence from St. Kitts. Whitlock snubbed Webster, and within five hours the Crown's agent was unceremoniously expelled from the island. Gathering up the last tattered hems of colonial majesty, Britain ordered troops to Anguilla...
Next day, as a bobby solemnly directed traffic at one of the few major crossroads, Anguillians stirred themselves into a public demonstration. Webster, mounted on a motor bike, brandished the orange, white and turquoise flag of the "republic," and some of his fellow islanders waved signs reading "Brutish British Go Home" as they marched past the red-roofed school where the occupiers had set up temporary headquarters...
Dubious Victory. All foreigners, including some Americans, were interrogated. Jack Holcomb, a 40-year-old Florida businessman suspected of having undue influence over Webster, was deported, vigorously protesting his innocence. The Rev. Freeman Goodge, pastor of the Anguilla Baptist Church, was questioned about alleged connections with the Mafia. His home was searched, he reported. "They went through the chicken coop, even searched my wife's underwear and went through a new Bible leaf by leaf...