Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abound, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work...
...indicted. Governor Shivers and Attorney General Shepperd have been rebuked by a state senate investigating committee for negligence and, no doubt, will feel the scandal's sting politically. As for Bascom Giles, he will go on trial again Aug. 15 in San Antonio for taking a $30,000 bribe, and still faces three other indictments charging him with taking bribes totaling...
...second requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...
...back to the big city and wound up where he belonged -in the prize ring. There were distracting influences. Rocky got married, and his wife would burst into tears when he came home with his face looking like a leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated pier-six brawl and won the middleweight championship of the world...
...Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise...