Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There should be an additional point made about the relation of morality in behavior and supposed content of education. The immoral people in the basketball fixes are the college presidents involved. Primarily and ineluctably they must accept the responsibility. The initial bribe was offered by them to the student. It was perfectly predictable that he would take the next bribe offered him since his behavior in this direction had been well reinforced...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...
...department has taken no action on Cullum's information. Columnist Drew Pearson has charged that the same combine offered a $1,000,000 bribe to an Agriculture official who was eased out last spring. Last week, one more Agriculture official was fired, another suspended for unannounced reasons.But the whole story probably would never be known, unless Congress dredges out the facts...
...year (and especially in 1951), the U.S. press, U.S. officialdom and the U.S. people are used to scandals in which somebody steals something, takes a big bribe, or runs off with another man's wife. But they were taken aback by the trouble at West Point-which raised more delicate and difficult moral questions than the customary hearty fare. After the first shock, the nation plunged into debate...
...presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well-tied knots of suspense...