Word: dodgerism
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...morning of the races President Roosevelt left the Department of Commerce's inspection boat Sequoia which had brought him from New Haven, boarded the referee's boat, Dodger III, to watch the races. Going up the river, the Dodger III passed the Harvard freshman shell in which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was No. 6. The Harvard coxswain gave the order to "let her run" while father and son exchanged a wave...
...week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million...
...years of happiness. ... I think, Mr. President, you will agree with me when I say that 14 years of exile is a far greater punishment than five years in a military prison." The President received this plea last week from the namesake of another famed Democratic President, Draft-Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now living in Germany. The President sent it to Attorney General Cummings...
From Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble...
Last month Irving Wexler was put on trial as an income tax dodger. For three years the U. S. Government had been trying to get him just as it got Chicago's Alphonse Capone. Federal investigators, working day and night, uncovered evidence showing that he owed the Treasury $1,111,000 in taxes. When his trial began bull-necked Irving Wexler affected bored unconcern. Hands laced across his paunch, he dozed while lawyers droned. But spry, boyish Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey soon jolted him wide awake with 140 witnesses and 900 exhibits carefully tracing the history and ramifications...