Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Chinese, with a white lawyer, Michelson, were hailed before the U. S. District Court, San Francisco, on a charge of having conspired to bribe an immigration officer. All four were acquitted, but not before the prosecuting attorney had added to the tribulations of a California Cabinet member. Said the prosecutor...
Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral. Prison execution...
They were accused of taking a bribe. It was charged that one Fred W. Pollman, a banker convicted of forgery and sentenced to prison had, with the knowledge of state attorneys, entered into negotiations with Russell Davis, the Governor's son; that he promised to pay $1,250 in exchange for a pardon; that Russell Davis visited a room in a Topeka hotel and received $1,000 from Pollman, while reporters and a stenographer listened to the conversation by a telephonic device in a room near by; that Russell Davis went away and returned with the pardon; that Pollman...
...have committed no offense. I have violated no law. I have committed no crime. I have neither solicited, nor accepted any bribe. In my official acts I have an ear for the poor and the down-trodden of the State. I have made the best fight I could...
...later Commissioner over the whole sport. Soon friction developed. The Grand Khan resented the overlordship of the Tsar. The latest of these flare-ups took place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given the Giants the pennant of their league. The Philadelphian refused and reported the offered bribe. But the Giants won the pennant nonetheless. Judge Landis expelled the two players after a cursory investigation...