Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearest hospital. Not until the dying coachman had been attended to did President Diaz notice the pain in his heel, discover that he had been wounded. . . . Significance. This barbarous, indefensible attack on President Diaz evinced the hatred which he inspires among Nicaraguan Liberals. They see in him a corrupt Conservative, a puppet set up by the U. S. and elected only under duress by the Nicaraguan Congress. They have mobilized an army to overthrow him and have proclaimed as a rival president, Dr. Juan Sacasa, who has been recognized by Mexico* (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the duel between Nicaragua...
Last week, however, the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the two lower courts, vindicated Proprietor Dysart, vexed the schoolteachers. Its decision said that the language of the letters could not be considered improper for the mails unless it was "calculated to corrupt the minds and morals of those into whose hands it might fall." Forthwith, the Supreme Court adjourned for the Christmas recess-to meet again...
...supplied the "Mayors of the Palace"* to the present Rumanian dynasty since its inception (1866), is not now Premier, but Premier General Averescu is universally admitted to be his puppet. The Bratiano clan controls the oil and much of the industry of Rumania. More vitally it controls the indescribably corrupt electoral machinery of Rumania by which new parties achieve overwhelming majorities and old ones are wiped out by the figurative pressure of a button: the button connecting the residence of Jon Bratiano by private telephone with the office of the Chief of Police of Bucharest, the activities of whose agents...
...Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods and corrupt politicians to prove it?" Yes, gracious yes, the reader remembers-if he is the right reader...
...ballot box. "FOR FASCISM!" he cried, and cast his vote. Three hundred and forty-one Fascists voted with him. The Giolittists cast against him twelve innocuous and well stage-managed votes. It is significant that one-time Premier Giolitti had the reputation in his palmiest days of being notably corrupt and was once impeached for abuse of power (1893). The political supremacy of Fascismo is complete...