Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln Steffens once called Boston the most corrupt city in the U. S. During the past eight years the Boston political machine ruled State as well as city. Last week Massachusetts' new Governor, cowcatcher-chinned Leverett Saltonstall, began the Augean task of purging Massachusetts of corruption. First pile into which he plunged his shovel was the State Education Department...
Small also were most of the Committee's suggested amendments to the Work Relief act and the Corrupt Practices act, chiefly little plugs for little loopholes. The biggest...
...Kelley, and several other Waterbury officials, resulted from Mr. Leary's failure (by 33 votes) to get re-elected last year. The Republican who got in soon told the State's Attorney, who told the grand jury, that Hayes, Leary & Co., "a small but powerful, ruthless and corrupt group of men." had been running Waterbury's affairs "for personal financial gain and political advancement" at a cost of millions of dollars to the city. Mr. Hayes's widowed mother went on his $25,000 bond. Last week Mr. Hayes's lawyers fought tooth & nail...
...principal executives of the Young Communist League had been ousted. Next day Komsomolskaya Pravda, under changed editorial direction, was explaining that the League's former leaders had been indifferent toward the welfare of good Young Communists but had protected "inveterate drunkards," "double-dealers," even those who were "morally corrupt." The net of this seemed to be that the exuberant Youth paper had taken a little too enthusiastically the Dictator's plump for World Revolution two weeks before. With Unifier Zhdanov on the job, the Party press and the Government propaganda agency will get a better idea of what...
...editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings, calls spiritedly to the chained negro slave...