Word: checkered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Couzens was mayor of Detroit in 1922 when the city bought Detroit United Railway (for $19,850,000). He was in the Senate, and Detroit Street Railways was running in the black when a husky onetime track material checker named Frederick Albert Nolan became its operating boss...
Since 1934, charged Mr. Dewey, the Commissioner had received $67,000 from Parmelee Transportation Co., which operates 2,000 taxicabs in New York City, through President Morris Markin of Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., Parmelee's parent organization. In return, said the indictment. Commissioner Harnett had let Parmelee put up its own $250,000 bonding fund to save paying premiums to a bonding company, and then allowed Parmelee to "borrow" half its money back for operating expenses, while denying these special but not illegal privileges to rival companies. Arrested, fingerprinted, released on $5,000 bail, Commissioner Harnett denied all charges...
...idea of the thing was that the Republican vote-checker at the polling place would give the volunteer a list showing all the registered voters by addresses. An "R" or a "D" showed which party they were registered under, and those who had already voted were checked off. The season was open for the other Republicans. You started canvassing at one end of the street and looked at the other with a longing eye. The longer the street the more longing...
...satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private utility connection, he said, nor had Accountant Conick, his choice for the job. Mr. Conick is a checker-upper whose firm (Main & Co.) has often been called in to clean up after Pennsylvania politicians, whose findings drove from office Pittsburgh's rapacious mayor, the late Charles H. Kline...
Evidently stirred by Senator Davis' activity, Chairman Donahey traveled at week's end to Washington to ask President Roosevelt for more money for the committee, so that it can audit TVA thoroughly itself. Senator Donahey's own checker-upper will be W. O. Heffernan, now the committee's secretary, long a topflight aide of such employers as General Motors, National Cash Register, the British Treasury...