Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three places from the bottom. By the time they are sitting beside the coach he is ready to send in what he thinks is the second-string back-field. Instead it is the Ritz Brothers who prevail on the captain not to accept substitutes by offering him a large bribe. After being penalized about 40 yards for their antics on the field one of them throws a long forward pass, catches it himself and runs for the winning touchdown...
...Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved to pull down Jewish derbies and yank Jewish beards. Having neither beard nor derby, Ben Balish set himself up as a middleman in onions, soon did magnificently. But a truant officer caught him and young Balish had to bribe him $10 a week not to report his absence from school...
...lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck the Gobbles. Japanese businessmen with Shantung investments were busy in Tokyo begging and praying the Imperial Government not to go off half-cocked and invade Shantung but be just a little patient and win much more cheaply by means of bribes. Rumors that Shantung's Han recently conferred in Tsinan with Japanese Lieut.-General Kenji Doihara, Tokyo's ablest bribe artist in dealing with Chinese, were taken seriously enough at Nanking, China's capital, for a government spokesman to angrily exclaim last week: "If Doihara came there...
...from 1929 to 1934 was being New York State Banking Superintendent. Not only were the finances of the world tottering as never before but the office's morale and reputation had been shattered because the previous incumbent, Frank H. Warder, had been convicted of accepting a $10,000 bribe. Sitting in the saddle of this banking bronco, however, was brisk, hard-working Joseph A. Broderick. He did his job well enough so that when he was indicted on charges of neglect of duty in connection with the failure of New York's Bank of United States, not only...
...Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux, attempting to kidnap the C-2 from French waters for a bribe of 2,000,000 Franco pesetas (about...