Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pools and hot baths on Long Island, innumerable servants, debutante daughters, jewel-laden side-kicks, clubs with arm-chairs and whiskey, in fact, all the good things in life, as well. Without such fearless, quiet, hard-working defenders of the people as Senator Black, these men would continue to bribe innocent politicians, and to steal the saving of widows and orphans, and even he could not do much by way of exposing and attacking the dirty crooks without the power of the United States Government, and the procedure of a Senate investigation, behind...
...been unconstitutional, it would have remained one of the worst acts passed in the History of the United States, ranking only with such recognized monstrosities as the Wagner Labor Hill, the Guffey Coal Act, and the N. R. A. The idea that a President should have the power to bribe districts of non-sympathetic voters with direct cash payments is unbelievable. But to have the effrontery to make these payments for nothing,--nay, for less than nothing, for refraining from doing something productive and constructive for the country--, transports one to the realms of Alice in Hades...
...Directory claims to be a "graduate of the University of Hard Knocks," came a still harder knock: Son Charles flunked the entrance examination at West Point. Last week a jury in a District of Columbia courtroom, where the Hoeppels, father & son, were on trial for conspiracy to solicit a bribe, heard what became of the West Point appointment. James W. Ives, a handsome Olympic athlete from Baltimore, who had played football at Johns Hopkins, took the stand and swore as follows...
...onetime Secretary of the Interior, convicted bribe-taker, grandson of a co-founder of the Disciples of Christ (Camp-bellites). was visited by priests, baptized a Roman Catholic...
...previously possessed he was assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja abandoned her errand, deceived the chiefs, was blown...