Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported as 83 when he resigned. Rhee is self-assured, stubborn, and dictatorial. He has been actively heading the Korean independence movement since 1919 when he was elected President of the Korean Republic in exile. (Korea was handed over to Japan as a bribe for recognition of American interests in the Philippines...
...State Department told the story. First, its investigator discovered that four of the consulate's employees were homosexuals. He learned next that one of them, a chubby young (25) vice consul named John Wayne Clark Williams, was also running an illegal racket on the side-accepting bribes from Chinese seeking visas to enter the U.S. Williams, a college graduate (North Carolina) who served in the Army for three years during World War II, reportedly confessed that in his 30 months as visa clerk for the Hong Kong consulate, he had collected about $10,000 in bribes in return...
Meanwhile, a basketball coaches committee meeting in Minneopalis drew up an eight-point recommendation aimed at purifying their blackened sport, suggesting that a Federal law punish bribe offerers...
...gamblers. A few months ago, he began dropping in casually on gambling joints and sports hangouts, asking discreet questions and listening. With a few facts to justify his suspicions, Kase also turned his reporters loose on the job of trying to discover the "fix guy" who was arranging to bribe the players. One night a "source" gave Kase a name. After fitting his facts together, Kase took them to the district attorney one week before the first story of a fix involving Manhattan College players broke (TIME, Jan. 29). The D.A.'s men spent a month following up Kase...
Pearson countered with four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...