Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest member of that body. He was put on the Ways and Means Committee, and helped Representative William McKinley to write the McKinley Tariff Bill. After six years in the House, he went back to Wisconsin. In 1901, he was elected Governor of that state. He broke the corrupt organization that had ruled the state, and since then has dominated Wisconsin politics. In 1905, he resigned to become U. S. Senator. In 1908, he had 25 votes for the nomination for President in the Republican Convention. In 1912, he might well have run independently for President if his rival, Roosevelt...
...when beer flowed freely in the Yard on Class Day, it being thought perhaps, that their imminent departure from the old place would cast a gloom over the festivities and render Seniors melancholy when they should be most jovial. But times have changed, "lest one good custom should corrupt the world". Yet Class Day remains much the same as before, for Seniors are by nature gay and frolic some at this particular time. The trials and tribulations of four long years are past and happily surmounted, and the future is full of smiling promise...
CRAY H. MOSEDALE According to the Book of Daniel Drew, he (Drew) sold watered stock to Henry Astor-but there is only Drew's word for it. Some regard all versions of the origin of "watered stock" as semi-mythological since the term "watered jury" (corrupt jurors) was in use as early...
Meantime, ugly rumors went about Peking. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," was reported to be planning to attack the Chief Executive, Tuan Chi-jui, on the score that the latter is as corrupt as his predecessors...
Fall hoped to escape prosecution. Warren will be assured against punishment. Fall aided others to commit crime. Warren connived and assisted in the execution of crime. Fall's unlawful purpose was secret. Warren's corrupt practices are today known...