Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested," said Mr. Murphy, who long since had been inevitably labeled "St. Francis," "in uncovering any corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated...
...than merely a welcome reception. It had brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, enough humor, and excellent acting by a sincere cast--the whole combining to make palatable a message of steel unionism and proletarian action. On a stage bare except for a few chairs and a piano, Big Business, the corrupt press, and a hypocritical clergy were treated to tuneful rapping...
...often is it glibly stated that tutoring in its corrupt form can never be abolished at Harvard: at best it can be driven underground. When however, this has been accomplished, the Crimson will rest satisfied. Driven underground, the tutoring bureaus are stripped of their sham of respectability. Their work is recognized for what it is; depraved and dishonest. And Harvard need no longer be humiliated by recognizing them as part of her educational process...
...bluff over the Missouri River and decided that lots in a little village on the other side were safe investments. The lawyer was Abraham Lincoln; the village, Omaha, Neb. Railroads and stockyards made it great; in 1887 real-estate transfers amounted to $31,000,000. It was also corrupt: by 1911 the income of 370 houses of prostitution amounted to $17,760,000 annually. Now the brilliantly lighted "Arcade," that in 1907 housed 300 girls, is closed. In the back room of the Budweiser Saloon on Douglas Street, tough Tom Dennison bossed city politics, fought Mayor Ed Smith, won after...
...Yale News" has exposed the whole monstrous situation during past weeks in columns which, if placed end to end, would probably reach from Portland to Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies...