Word: doubledealing
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After coming to power President Ubico introduced a Probity Law, requiring that public officials register their assets upon taking and leaving office. He also doubled his own salary and made it payable for life.
The national record was held by a boy laborer in an East Coast town who admitted 63 separate thefts. Police doubled anti-looting squads sent nightly to prowl in freshly bombed districts; magistrates doubled penalties, sometimes gave the twelvemonth maximum. More looters were held over for the Old Bailey, where...
In swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers...
Do you have a personal theory that might answer the problem of perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the...
In 1936, the average Hollywood extra-forgotten man of an industry famed for its riches-worked eleven days, earned a total of $105.63 in twelve months. By 1939 his working days were more than doubled, his earnings more than tripled, but he was still on a starvation income. Two years...