Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suspended from office for letting corruption burgeon under his nose, Sioux City's Mayor William Dukes Hayes complained that he was too busy to act as "a cop on the corner," last week found a district judge who agreed with him, dismissed an action for his removal...
...personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President. His administrations are remembered less for their legislative measures than for the magnitude of their swindles. President Grant was publicly entertained by Gould and Fisk just before those crafty scoundrels tried to corner the country's gold supply. His confidential secretary took bribes from the Whiskey Ring. Even though he was not directly involved in the Credit Mobilier exposure, it placed him under popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption...
...feel as guilty in being a split second late for a meal as though he'd been caught cribbing in an exam. That was before Harvard men could know the fury of being charged telescopic prices for the privilege of keeping their cars in the open air, (corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn...
...Ethiopian Lion is quietly sharpening his claws in preparation for the moment when he will pit his courage, savage skill and crude weapons against the scientifically equipped Italian Jackal," cabled the Herald Tribune's Linton Wells from the Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...
Indeed, the Morgan announcement was construed marketwise as having almost as bullish implications as President Roosevelt's later pronouncement (see p. 11). In the little grey house at the corner of Broad & Wall Streets there was evidently considerable faith in the future of the securities business if not in the future of the whole U. S. Rival firms which have been industriously collecting business scattered by New Deal legislation were not so pleased, and stock in First Boston Corp., currently the leading U. S. investment bankers, dropped $4 per share on the announcement. But the stanch and stolid New York...