Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gubernatorial nomination and, feeling a bit like a wall flower with no one slinging any dirt in his direction, he started slinging on his own. Candidate Margiotti charged that Philadelphia's Contractor-Boss Matthew H. McCloskey and Secretary of State David Lawrence in 1935 obtained a $20,000 bribe for supporting legislation favorable to Pennsylvania brewers. Although Mr. Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal...
Last week, the Campbell-McGee parade reached its logical destination. After a trial, in the course of which the judge announced that he had foiled a plot whereby a woman juror was to receive a $25,000 bribe for holding out for acquittal, a jury, sequestered in the Statler Hotel, found Messrs. Campbell & McGee guilty as charged. Same day, accompanied by policemen but not by their musicians, Messrs. Campbell & McGee motored to Ohio Penitentiary, to start serving one-to-five-year sentences...
...maneuvers engaged in by the Secretary of the Treasury. During the conversation Grant asked: "General Wistar, have you any friends in Philadelphia who would buy that cottage across the road? I am very anxious to dispose of it." Wistar, suspecting that he was being felt out for a bribe, departed indignantly...
...some occasions, such as a scene in which they bribe the dean of the college to keep the coach and let them play on the team, they are actually amusing, In many of their acts they become tiresome, vulgar, and maudlin. When one appears without his pants, it may be funny the first time, but not the second, or the third; and "Life Begins at College" is not even their third vehicle...
...Loyal Opposition, angrily editorialized that the British Government had secretly "recognized" the Franco Government, getting ahead of Britain's own Scheme to recognize only Franco's belligerent rights. "This is a monstrous and disgraceful decision," cried the Herald. "Recognition of belligerent rights was a concession-a bribe if you like-to be paid for the withdrawal of volunteers, after the withdrawal. Now an even more far-reaching form of recognition is given in advance. The lever which might have secured withdrawal is flung away...