Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas a bundle of $1,000 in marked bills was handed to State Representative Dale. He accepted it gladly. Half of it was for his friend, State Representative Moore. Forthwith, Mr. Dale was arrested, was expelled from the legislature along with Mr. Moore for accepting a bribe. Speaker Bobbit and ranger officers had hatched the trap. Messrs. Dale and Moore, expectant of reward, had previously promised to kill a bill taxing optometrists...
...Kerr and Miss Bainter are most irretrievably in love through the introduction of 266 amatory forms of address, 33 kisses, and 18 embraces. At the end of the act Mr. Kerr has gone off to marry his Father's choice in a plot to obtain the 500,000 franc bribe and then desert her, while Miss Bainter has gone off to a mysterious Baron "with a car a mile long" who has been writing her tender notes...
...fortnight ago, than did Senator Walsh of Montana demand an investigation of corruption charges against him. Last week, by a vote of 70 to 7, the Senate adopted Mr. Walsh's resolution. Three Republican Senators and two Democrats were appointed to look into the story of a $100,000 "bribe" which Mr. Gould is said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat is in immediate danger, but the charges against him are more remote than those against Messrs...
...fell again financially. Then he got himself a horse and set out to explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful bit of pio neering...
...Four criminal cases were next brought on trial. Fall, Doheny and Sinclair were charged with fraudulent conspiracy against the government. It took two years to bring the case to trial. Fall and Doheny were later accused, the former for receiving, the latter for offering a bribe. The last record of these cases was entered nine months ago. The government, instead of pressing these cases, has dallied with them. Nine months passed; the criminal indictments were thrown out of court. Sinclair was them arrested for the sale of public lands. The indictment was sustained by the Court of Appeals of Washington...