Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...
...member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made deputy inspectors in his department at a salary of one dollar a year. They were then...
...Rollins board of trustees retorted that the A. A. U. P. investigators had befogged the sole important issue, the dismissal of Professor Rice, by bringing up tenure. The trustees accused one investigator of bias, of prying into other dismissals, of seeking to "coerce or bribe" Rollins into adopting A. A. U. P. tenure rules...
...Chinese newshawks who swarmed aboard the prosperously mutinous Hai Chi, her captain, still worried about just how big a bribe he would receive, confessed...
...whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness, whichever seemed best. Knox made Witness Karelsen lie low in her compartment, kept an eye on her as best he could. Unfortunately for his plans, Runaway Husband Jason celebrated his new freedom by taking a drink too many, stumbled into Lena's compartment...