Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, big blossom Harry Micajah Daugherty ("the original Harding man"), onetime (1921-24) Attorney General, and lesser blossom Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, were to go on trial in the Federal Court in Manhattan for conspiracy to defraud the Government of their "unprejudiced services" by accepting a bribe of $391,000 in the American Metal Co. case. The charges which they will have to explain...
...This, of course, is all but impossible to detect, and when detected is generally incapable of proof. At times the bribe takes the form of a heavy contribution to party funds, which is distributed in devious ways...
...ranking subordinate, Inspector Harry E. Laukhart, was bound over to the Trumbull County grand jury last week, accused of accepting a $40 bribe to ignore town speakeasies. †The cost of U. S. government, federal, state and local, was $10,975,000,000 last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...
...week saw the expiration of Premier Baldwin's time-limited offer of a coal subsidy to follow an agreement between the miners and owners. In the Commons, former Labor Premier Macdonald scathingly asked whether this offer had been intended as a bribe. Even this jibe did not deter Premier Baldwin from renewing his offer, this time without limit, in an effort to foster conciliation...
...indictment omits the Germans but brings in Mr. Daugherty, who it is alleged certified payment of the claim of the Germans, so that once more the finger of accusation points at the Ohioan. It was alleged some time ago that $40,000 of the supposed $391,000 bribe in Liberty bonds were traced to Mr. Daugherty's bank account in his brother's bank at Washington Court House, Ohio...