Word: bribers
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...never know how long these cases will last, especially these days. Of course you would get the money out of the depot in the long run, but in the first place the prices they pay you are always wretched, for they sell your things to the best briber, not the best bidder, and anyhow it's well known that money dwindles a lot if it passes from hand to hand from one year to another...
...million disfranchised citizens in the South you speak of are, I believed you will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task...
...vicious influence." swore out the dramatically-served warrant for Mr. O'Hara's arrest. Released on $5,000 bail supplied by Mayor McCoy, he was immediately rearrested on another warrant sworn out by Adman William E. Beehan whom he had called in the Star-Tribune a briber, released on similar bail from the same source. Next day he was back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with no betting allowed, if his license had been revoked. At week...
Interjected Chairman Bankes: "It is useless to be a briber unless the bribed will accept." (Laughter...
...When you say that the farther away from this country the looser the morals become," cried Professor Harold Cooke Gutteridge, a member of the Commission, "did you mean the looser the morals of the briber or the bribed?" (Laughter...