Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flaws, is the most perfectly practical form of government known; and its success is undoubtedly determined in ratio to the political consciousness of the people. When, however, representative government is introduced into backward countries whose populace is for the most part ignorant and whose leaders are often corrupt, it becomes nothing short of a farce. At Bagdad, capital of Iraq, officials decided to postpone a general election for the first national parliament. The circumstances were unique; The population of the country-man, woman and child-is not more than 3,000,000; of these, only male subjects 20 years...
...going to bribe a public official and imperil his reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...
...mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera. It is distinctly a foreign, alien expression, with a far-reaching in fluence for evil. Today, everyone knows the mental nature of cause and effect; and one cannot witness horrible scenes or be mentally a participant in corrupt and degraded poisonous taint. . . ." Thus The Standard, Ku Klux Klan organ...
...Davis will not compromise either with the corrupt forces of special privilege or with the malcontent forces of dangerous radicalism. (Signed) Clifford P. Morehouse, President, Harvard Democratic Club...
...British conception of monarchy; but, unfortunately, Director Primo Rivera and his satellites are masters of the situation and, willy-nilly, the King must bow to the inevitable and accept for the time being a military dictatorship for his country which has for its avowed purpose the purging of a corrupt political system...