Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has often been temptation to be irresponsible. Sammons and his staff have been threatened with lawsuits and physical violence, and have been offered everything from cash bribes and lavish gifts to orders for thousands of copies of the book, just for adding a name and biography. (One West Coast multimillionaire offered to buy $2,000 worth of books if Who's Who would just include a long list of his wife's French forebears.) But Editor Sammons has an iron-clad rule that "you cannot buy, bribe or flatter your way into...
...Farouk accepted a ?75,000 bribe from the cotton speculators to plead their case before the Cabinet...
...Serag el Din took a ?5,000 bribe from a deputy who wanted a police station moved...
...blessing of the Chandlers), Big Bill has been battling accusations of graft. A wealthy man, he has boasted that his $14,000-a-year state salary does not pay his federal income taxes. In 1940 he was tried and acquitted, in a directed verdict, on 23 counts of bribery, bribe solicitation and criminal conspiracy. In 1951 he blustered his way through a stormy session with the Senate's Kefauver crime investigating committee, forced Estes Kefauver into blushing, stuttering apologies for "aspersions" on his character...
...concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil agreed that "they quite obviously...