Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case in mind, Castro said. An official of his Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property-"someone that we know"-had accepted a bribe of $400,000 for unfreezing a frozen bank account of more than $900,000. "We are studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian...
...coalition government last year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required by law? In the resultant fuss, the government toppled and a general election was called...
...last December in a puzzle contest in the Chicago American. Last week Balk was hibernating in Brooklyn. The probability that the fix was bigger than Balk arose when Robert F. Kennedy, counsel for the U.S. Senate rackets committee, disclosed that racketeers had attempted to bribe a committee witness by guaranteeing to fix a win for him in a newspaper puzzle contest...
Despite the looting, Cuba kept growing. Machado's graft-ridden, 700 mile cross-island highway became the avenue for thriving commerce; Batista's bribe of high wages to workers widened the consumer class, gave Cuba a living standard not far short of booming Puerto Rico's. Today Cuba is 75% literate, boasts some of the most advanced social and labor legislation in the hemisphere...
...flying, Chairman Mboya ordered the offending flag removed. Mboya himself kicked up a bit of a fuss by repeating the charges he recently made in London that a leading witness against the convicted Mau Mau leader, Jomo Kenyatta, had perjured himself in return for a British Colonial Office bribe of a two-year scholarship in England, free air travel, a grant to his family, and the guarantee of education for his two sons if he himself should be killed by the Mau Mau in reprisal. Next day the conference dutifully took up the cry: "Free Jomo Kenyatta...