Word: bribe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bread-and-water basis by City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 40, who decreed a belt tightening on the use of welfare funds. Now it was Mitchell who might be getting a taste of tin-plate victuals. Mitchell was arrested and charged with agreeing to a $20,000 bribe from two real estate men who wanted a variance in a zoning rule in order to build a multiple-dwelling housing development. The brothers told the cops, turned the 20 grand over to Mitchell's bagman in a Manhattan hotel room while detectives waited outside...
...written with toughness and honesty, as if no one had ever before told a detective story. And perhaps, if it is honesty that is to be considered, no one has. The detectives are good cops, and convincingly so. But the author can see no other kind; even his bribe takers are merely roguish leftovers from an era when gaslight softened the ugly look of graft. An artist as skilled as Dougherty should know that the boys in blue come in other shades...
...Bartlett is wrong. In 1797 a secret agent from Talleyrand told Pinckney that the American Commissioners sent to Paris to protest French attacks on U.S. shipping would be received only if they paid a ?50,000 bribe and made a large loan to the French government. Pinckney's words at this point, according to his own story, were, "Not a sixpence...
...personal political stake in the outcome. Even the pro-Kennedy Washington Post voiced editorial misgivings about Donovan's "conflict of roles." Said the Post: "Suppose the Cubans are freed before the election. The suspicion will exist, fairly or not, that the United States has paid a bribe to the Castro regime at least in part to help publicize a candidate for office...
...indolence in public office, the outmoded mores and traditions of the Old South. "E. F. Aydlett." read one two-line item about an Elizabeth City attorney who controlled the town, "was seen in the courthouse one day last week with his hands in his own pockets." Aydlett tried to bribe Saunders into silence, with no more effect than those who resorted to threats, legal action and even violence. Walter L. Cohoon, editor of a competitive paper, twice thrashed Saunders on Main Street and also sued him for libel. But under the state's liberal libel laws, Cohoon...