Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted to investigate charges that Mexico had plotted to bribe four U. S. Senators...
Indiana's next corruption trial comes next fortnight, featuring Governor Ed. Jackson and friends, indicted last fortnight on charges of trying to bribe Governor Jackson's predecessor, onetime Governor Warren T. McCray. Mr. McCray lately finished a prison term for a financial felony and will be present to testify (TIME, Sept. 19). Pending appeal of his case, Mayor Duvall, still in office, appointed as City Controller Mrs. John L. Duvall. He reasoned that, if he is deprived of his position, or even if he resigns, his wife will succeed the mayor of Indianapolis...
...Indiana grand jury was impaneled eleven months ago to find out. It failed to indict. Another grand jury likewise failed, being discharged prematurely when one of the jurors reported having been offered a bribe...
Thus it appeared that the entire Elk Hills business would be dredged up again and that the familiar "little brown bag" in which Edward L. Doheny Jr. took to Mr. Fall the $100,000 which Mr. Doheny calls a loan and Government attorneys call a bribe would once more be inspected by a jury. Shocked, irate, lawyers for the defendants protested that Messrs. Fall and Doheny were being tried twice for the same offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change...
...Alien Property Custodian, Mr. Miller returned $7,000,000 worth of stock in the American Metal Co., which had been seized by the U. S. during the World War, to the original German owners. This transaction was speeded up with a $441,000 bribe, of which Mr. Miller received $50,000. Mr. Daugherty, John T. King and Jesse W. Smith were supposed to have shared the remaining $391,000. Messrs. King and Smith are now dead; Mr. Daugherty is free. Notwithstanding Lawyer Sapiro, many say that Mr. Miller is the "goat...