Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive branch is riddled with bribe-takers and other grafters. Again, the reason is insecurity. Said a foreign diplomat who knows Iran: "Political fortunes are so fluctuating that officials hedge their bets. Life in or out of office is so uncertain that money seems the only sure thing; hence bribery flourishes. Where nothing and nobody appear trustworthy, intrigue becomes the pattern of action, and orderly government becomes impossible...
...time, several California newspapers had also heard about the bribe story from the source, a man of none-too-savory reputation who was also a onetime Howser campaign worker. But they had not dared print it for fear of libel...
...last week's trial, two California Congressmen testified that Howser's reputation was fine in 1948. Through his attorneys, Howser denied accepting the bribe and claimed that his career had been "irreparably damaged," since he had been defeated* for re-election last June...
...official party line was laid down in the Daily Worker by Harry Pollitt, secretary general of Britain's Communist Party: "The government and the Tories are making the biggest mistake of their lives if they think they are going to bribe and corrupt the miners ... to produce more coal for war against the Soviet Union...
...cried the Republicans-including Tom Dewey-was so honest that he had contracted a vast debt of honor and had kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...