Word: meaninglessness
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...sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic position. "The difficulty under which the President labors [is] obvious," he declared, "and the reason for his use of meaningless words is clear. It is the difficulty that always attends sacrificing principles for votes. . . . His statement proceeds . . . to mislead the people. . . . The present leadership stands convicted...
Taxation: "We advocate maintenance of the national credit by a Federal budget annually balanced . . . within revenues raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability to pay." The phrase "ability to pay" is a meaningless political weasel used to avoid taking a definite position on such hot issues as the Sales Tax, a broader income tax or higher surtaxes...
Litvinov v. Gibson. Next day the Russian Foreign Minister, speaking in English, attacked what other delegations were calling the British-U. S.-French resolution of adjournment. "It is meaningless and without figures," snorted the Russian...
...will dash to a nearby hospital to amuse bedridden children. His favorite device for 30 years has been the "Quizz-wizz." He thrusts a pencil into a child's hand, holds a pad of paper under it, jiggles the child's elbow. Then he sketches lines around the meaningless scrawl, telling a story as he goes, finally completing a drawing of a grotesque animal...
...This amendment meant that individuals and private industries could borrow directly from the Federal Reserve if member banks into which Reserve credit had been pumped refused to make loans. But so hedged about with restrictions was this authority for Reserve lending that Speaker Garner shrugged it off as a meaningless gesture compared with his own political plan for R. F. C. loans to all-comers...