Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket." An honest, upright man, he used the tactics of corrupt bosses, but with better intelligence. His followers won office, and ward heelers came to say of him: "He is the only boss in this town. He names the candidates, and when they write letters of acceptance, they write them to him." That...
...Secretary Wilbur never heard, for instance, of a corrupt church blocking the road which leads up form slavery in "our sister republic on the South", or of extra-territoriality acquired by the "right" of superior force in "Asia, in China, in Nicaragua." Mr. Wilbur may fool himself into thinking he can stop the wind by tilting at windmills. He will not fool history...
...corrupt the children's morals, and he can't stay in, our Yard...
...sight it might seem unwise to adopt unconditionally a system formerly discarded but the New Hampshire bill appears to be in reality an unusually far-sighted compromise between the two methods. It provides for party conventions whose nominations shall in ordinary cases take the place of expensive and possibly corrupt primaries, at the same time safoguarding the rights of the individual by making it possible for a candidate with sufficient support to appeal for a regular election, if dissatisfied with the decision of the convention of his party. It is foreseen that "appeal elections" will probably be demanded...
...Young America shall cease to begin life with fire-fighting aspirations, Director Nigh provides the public with a picture well calculated to arouse boyish enthusiasm. The hero is a fireman who not only rescues women and children from the flames, but fearlessly announces to the heroine's papa, corrupt politician, that it is unethical to build firetraps. Charles Ray is the young man with brass buttons, tin hat; and May McAvoy, as the pleasing heroine, marries him in a smoky fadeout, while Boy Scouts in the audience roar approval...