Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the present system of labor pirating. It can only be done by a direct exercise of authority. This authority must be based to prevent such steals as the one which occurred in Detroit recently when 52 toolmakers were lured from their jobs by a thirty cent hourly wage bribe. It must be used to forbid employers from hiring away workers except by express permission of the production authorities. It must train clerks and shopgirls as welders and machinists, and send them where they are most urgently needed. It must assure adequate farm labor to produce the food necessary...
...Smith. They found him in mild-mannered, hardworking Judge Ferguson. In three years, working as a one-man grand jury, silver-haired Judge Ferguson had mopped up gambling and vice rackets with an annual take of $20,000,000, had sent nearly a dozen city officials and scores of bribe-taking policemen to jail (TIME, June 1). He talked little about democracy, tried his best to make it work...
...trial's first week came the first official admission of a story long circulated in Washington and New York: that a Coast Guardsman had surprised the four saboteurs who landed on Long Island's Amagansett Beach; that, after they tried to bribe him into silence, he gave the alarm which put the FBI on the saboteurs' trail. The Coast Guardsman, young, dimpled Coxswain Jack Culley, (see cut) told his story at the trial...
...your article, too often Congressmen yield to their desire for reelection instead of to their knowledge of what is right or wrong for the whole country, then I fail to see where Democracy has anything to recommend it above Fascism or Naziism. If we must be bribed to perform a simple duty, then the quality of the duty must be largely determined by the size of the bribe. And if our Congressmen feel that with the assurance of a lifetime income . . . they can render better service, then God help us and all the peoples who are wholeheartedly fighting...
...Europe food is manipulated as a penal and political weapon, to punish and to bribe. In many places food supplies have been withdrawn or restricted in reprisal for minor infractions of Nazi edicts. When students plastered a French town with De Gaullist placards, meat ration cards were canceled for 40 days. In certain areas marked for German colonization, the Nazis withhold vitamins from the population to foster a slave mentality...