Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garssons' Washington contact man, Joseph Freeman, a fourth defendant, was acquitted last month of attempting to bribe May, on the judge's ruling that no case had been made out against...
...likely opponent for Tony Zale, who must defend his title by summer. It is up to Zale (and his manager Sam Pian) to decide which would be more profitable: a match outside New York with Graziano (who is banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer), or one with Cerdan in Manhattan...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
They couldn't have timed it worse. The sport pages were dripping with the evils of commercialism. Last week, Middleweight Rocky Graziano, whose conversation usually ranges from "Yeah" to "Nunhh," was quoted at length "in his own words" about being offered a $100,000 bribe. The New York State Athletic Commission debated whether to cancel his championship fight with Tony Zale. Three more big-league football-betting bookies were indicted...
Rocky said he didn't take the money. He said he couldn't remember who it was who had propositioned him (except that it was the one who had tried to bribe him once before). Rocky feigned a backache to get the fight called off. A New York State Boxing Commission doctor "confirmed" the back injury. Then Rocky went to Florida, presumably for his health. Rocky told the story to District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...