Word: pork-barrel
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...intensely regret these major provisions . . . committing the Federal Treasury to the expenditure of from $500,000,000 to $1,200,000,000 for non-productive public works. . . . Any study will indicate their pork-barrel characteristics. . . . They are wasteful . . . not economically needed ... a squandering of public money. ... A deficiency [will be] created in the Budget [which] cannot be disguised by accounting phrases. . . . Ve have worked for four months in heart- breaking struggle to balance the Budget. ... To start now to break Federal credit will result in the eventual unemployment of far more men than this comparatively few benefited. . . . There is. however...
Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
...that after his hard labors there are many times when a Representative desires to rest reclining. Said The New York World: "The situation demands investigation- and action. Members of Congress, like babies, are least trouble when they are asleep. Five hundred sofas would be cheaper than one good fat pork-barrel grab...
...does not hedge on the issues facing the nation; there is no beating around the bush. He suggests the budget system as a vital need in this time of vast expenditures. The necessity of such a system has been long realized; it has been blocked right along by the "pork-barrel" specialists in the House. The question of simplified income taxes shows that while the President has been in the sick-bed he has not lost the "common touch." He comes out in favor of a tariff revision that will enable foreign countries to pay off their vast debts...