Word: dishonestly
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...essentially different from that of the A. B. C., though slightly more radieal. The result is that San Martin heads a minority government, a virtual dictatorship of the students supported by the soldiers. If is not supported by even the honest politicians or officers, much less by the dishonest elements...
...horsemen know that racehorses are sometimes drugged with laudanum before a dishonest race to make them sleepy and slow, with heroin or cocaine to speed them up. They call the last race at some tracks the "drugstore race" because some of the horses are certain to have been drugged. Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that...
...unemployment has resulted in increasing library circulation throughout the country, the people who have constituted a large proportion of summer school registration in many cases have had to dispense with the luxury of education for the bare essentials of living. It is deplorable that poor and in some cases dishonest municipal financing, which was put to the acid test by the depression, had deprived many instructors of their pay and slashed salaries thirty per cent. In spite of the obstacles of the times and the fact that more than one hundred schools lost money last year, Harvard among them, only...
...biggest socialized business. Yet it is most unsocially and inefficiently decentralized, with 127,000 old-fashioned local school boards doing business with taxpayers' money. There are 424,000 school board members, one for every two U. S. school teachers. That some are inefficient and others are dishonest is not surprising. But people everywhere were amazed last week to hear that Dickson City, coal-mining suburb of Scranton, Pa., has a schoolman who cannot read and can scarcely write...
...from the U. S. public and put it aside in a special emergency budget. Though such borrowing may pile up the Public Debt to an all-time high, the regular budget will be unaffected. Many a financial commentator considered this a deceptive if not dishonest form of Federal bookkeeping; many another thought it the only sane thing...