Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...menace. He broke down and begged Judge Henry W. Goddard for mercy. Judge Goddard gave him ten years, $10,000 fine. To John McAdams, a Customs sergeant through whom Katzenberg used to pass huge shipments of dope into New York, the same judge last fortnight gave seven years for bribe-taking...
...asserting that New York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...
...Donat J. Levesque, Democratic mayor ot sedate Lewiston. Me., was indicted on a charge of accepting a $200 bribe in connection with the appointment of a city health officer...
...garish light of these two facts shows up the majority of pension promises as cheap electoral bribes. Only thus can the action of Massachusetts Republicans be interpreted, whatever the righteousness of their cause against Curley. Moreover, a unique feature--the arousal of false hopes in the hearts of many old men and women, the ugly delusion involved--makes such a bribe doubly reprehensible. Principles of humanity are at stake...
Those, of course, were the days of yore. Lampy jumped its circulation and reaped inestimable glory. Now on Mount Auburn Street they just sigh wistfully and think of the "good old days." But perhaps the H. A. A. "bribe," as a Lampooner expressed it, will stir them into new action...