Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kicking Around. Besides hunting Manhattan's murderous Racketeer Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter (in a race with Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey) and other Public Enemies, Mr. Murphy's men are also hounding down Louisiana's corrupt Democratic politicos. Having convicted Kansas City's Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge...
...survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which has yet to manifest any significantly constructive influence...
...invoke Thy wrath upon reprobate men who come to this city to corrupt public officials, buy and sell legislation and traffic in the honor of government. We invoke Thy wrath upon little men in large places who stoop to canny shrewdness to thwart the people's will and reduce the business of public affairs to mistrust and contempt...
Chiang was no mixture of revolutionary and saint like Dr. Sun Yatsen, who in 1911 had stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president of the Whampoa Military School in Canton. When Dr. Sun died in 1925, China was overrun by warlords. It took a hardheaded soldier like Chiang to command the loyalty of the Kuomintang. Hardheaded men in Chinese politics are not stubborn idealists -against odds they normally quit or sell...
What Judge Martin Thomas Manton, now 58, did between 1922 and last winter, when he hurriedly resigned under fire, was told last week by witnesses testifying at his trial in Manhattan for conspiring to corrupt the administration of justice and allegedly accepting bribes of $186,146.* Tops among last week's three slush trials (see p. 18), it did not make a pretty story...