Word: strictest
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Ball-hausplatz was summarized in a Foreign Office tip-off to the press. He first explained that "verbal derailments from one side or another must not be taken too seriously," assured the diplomats that "the elections will be carried out peacefully and subsequent developments will follow the strictest constitutional course...
...Illinois or Indiana. When he failed to get them, he said he stormed into the Curtis office, received back $400 of his "fee." Another builder paid in his $500, he said, and later invested $15 in a set of Federal statutes from which he learned that only by the strictest competitive bidding could he hope to get a U. S. contract legally. Other men paid for the profitable roofing and plumbing subcontracts on the new Chicago post office. They got part of their fees back on demand. Mr. Curtis spent two hours explaining at the State's Attorney...
Pennsylvania Republican primaries are notoriously extravagant. Some two million dollars was spent by three Senate candidates in the 1926 contest which resulted in the Vare nomination and scandal. Nebraska's Senator Norris has already moved to keep the Grundy-Davis campaign expenditures under strictest scrutiny by a special Senate committee...