Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respectable neighborhood costs half a judge's salary." In England judges are paid $20,000 to $50,000, but Chief Justice Taft receives only $15,000, and the Associate? Justices who serve with him get $500 a year less. Mr. Davis quoted John Marshall: " 'An ignorant, corrupt and de pendent judiciary is the worst affliction any people can suffer. No man who is inadequately paid can be independent in thought.' "If the present salaries are to be continued, judges should be required to take the oath of celibacy so as not to expose their dependents...
...problems are not easy. The obstacles placed by selfish and corrupt influences do not disappear with the blast of a trumpet. The ordinary citizen is intent on his own business. He is hard to arouse and to keep aroused to the fact that good city government is good business and that the small favors he receives from political machines are dearly bought...
Amid all this effort the strange case of Dreyfus, a Jewish Captain in the French Army, an alleged German spy, caught and fired the imagination of Clémenceau and Zola. Together they launched an attack upon the corrupt court martial which had convicted Dreyfus. The attack swelled into a national and then an international scandal the repercussions of which are still felt in France...
Some 27 months ago (TIME, Sept. 29, 1923) General Primo de Rivera, robust determined, overthrew the allegedly corrupt Government of Premier Alhucemas by "a bloodless Fascist revolution," and became de facto "The Mussolini of Spain" and de jure President of "The National Directorate,"* an office which King Alfonso hastily created...
...time it was announced that the new Directorate intended to remain in power only long enough to purge Spain of her corrupt internal administration and to restore the prestige of her armies in Morocco. Last week it began to look as if this promise were being kept rather well by Dictator de Rivera. He announced that he bas built up a political party, the Patriotic Union, and declared that he will function henceforth as Premier of the following half-civil, half-military Cabinet...