Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dickerson also admitted that the Republican state committee had accepted a $25,000 "loan" from one Joseph Bozzo, a friend of Gambler Longie Zwillman, and had kept no records of the cash repayment. What about Willie Moretti's complaint about his $286,000 bribe? Dickerson knew all about it-for Willie had called at Dickerson's home (in company with Joe Adonis and brother Salvatore Moretti) and had cried, "Tell the governor and the attorney general that I don't intend to take this laying down." The governor, Dickerson went on, had been "shocked" to hear...
Around the Pentagon, as well as among flyers in Korea, there was considerable wisecracking about the offer. In Britain's House of Lords, an excitable Labor peer announced that he regarded it as dastardly to bribe the enemy to commit treason...
...final, the fans impatiently sat through a consolation game between Duquesne and Manhattan. By coincidence, though his team lost, the individual star of the consolation game (27 points) was Manhattan's Negro Center Junius Kellogg, the player who first broke the scandal wide open by refusing a bribe and reporting the offer to his coach (TIME...
...drive. The PBH organizers merely felt that here was a group of students who would immediately recognize the enormous importance of the drive. I am certain that the members of all ROTC units here at Harvard would be insulted by any suggestion that it was necessary to bribe them to give blood for "the greater glory" of any group. Bruce E. Balding...
...Unbelievable. Big Jim Jeffries half killed himself working off 65 Ibs. The night before the fight, which was held in Reno on July 4, 1910, he was in such bad shape that a contingent of public-spirited citizens tried to bribe Johnson to take a dive. Johnson politely replied: "Tell Mister Jim that we are going to do the best we know." In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. He was not counted out-nobody ever...