Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipped from her lofty position for the first time in 1934 when Federal prosecutors preparing mail fraud cases against certain oil company officials heard that an attempt had been made to bribe other Federal officials in the interest of the defendants. Their investigation resulted in indictments against Queen Helen, Justice Gavin Craig of the District Court of Appeals and a minor politician named Joseph Weinblatt. Last year Justice Craig and Weinblatt were convicted and sentenced, but Queen Helen was freed...
Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
Steelmasters ascribed the raise to returning prosperity, warned that it would be promptly followed by a rise in the price of steel. C. I. O. leaders denounced it as a bribe to persuade workers against joining their union. To the mighty argument of $75,000,000 they replied with scorn. Cried Philip Murray, asserting that the raise had been decided on weeks ago and held up in the hope of crediting it to a Landon victory: "Thoroughly licked in Tuesday's election and thoroughly afraid, the steel industry is making a last belated attempt to keep workers away from...
...Orient frightened men are quick to attempt to bribe, and the Japanese Army & Navy has its own peculiar morality. Last week Japanese Sugar Tycoon Hatsutaro Akashi suddenly announced that a group of wealthy and patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff...
...mesmerized the American voter, so that broken promises, personal insincerity and twisted facts have floated by unnoticed amid a deluge of words and millions of dollars wasted on boondoggling. Half-baked projects and hastily thought out measures have given the President ample opportunity to open the money bags and bribe the voter to pocket his conscience...