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Word: briber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleared of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fall Trips | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glossary | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Act Two | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

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