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Word: bribed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballot box. The registration and voting of people who are not naturalized citizens is a crime. ... I am informed the names of such persons will be presented to you. ... If a man casts a dishonest ballot he cocks and fires a gun at the heart of America. Whether a bribe is given or taken in a Congressional election, it is a violation of the laws of the U. S. I am informed violations of this nature took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Machine Busting | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...doesn't seem, however, that the American people want that. The mere suggestion of lending abroad conjures up images of foreign entanglements. Fortunately the New Deal is wary of accepting slight payments on the defaults as an excuse for lifting the Johnson Amendment, an excuse better termed a bribe. But in addition, the New Deal should be alert to the dangers of excessive American lending abroad a second time, both because of financial risk and possible involvement in the next European conflict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOT MONEY | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

...leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable of taking out a score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling a Chinese crisis. "Was I endangered in Sian?" said Counselor Peck, who knows his China, with a hearty laugh. "Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Deteriorating Conditions | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Basic requirement of the numbers game is a figure published daily in the newspapers. Until 1930 the most popular figures were the New York Clearing House daily clearings and balances. In that year, after numerous attempts had been made to bribe staid Clearing House employes for advance information, Manhattan dailies ceased to print the figures. It was a futile gesture, for the bigtime numbers bankers simply shifted to other figures. Butter, egg and stock sales are used in combination for the game in Winston-Salem, N. C. Every important newspaper takes elaborate precautions to see that any figures likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Numbers | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Before the numbers bankers changed from Clearing House to race track figures and began to set rigid deadlines for play, newspaper offices were constantly annoyed by attempts to bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Numbers | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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