Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hushed audience, Murray told of "meetings" in New York between Communist Party Bosses William Foster and Eugene Dennis, U.E. Bosses James Matles and Julius Emspak and "our good friend Harry Bridges." He charged: "There evolved plans and policies to corrupt and destroy if possible the trade union movement in America. And if our country was engulfed in another war, they would go underground and undermine the people and this Government of ours...
...make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers with a knife, plunged them "into the corrupt and rotting darkness" of a corpse. It was his final demonstration of a great discovery: six days later Ignaz Semmelweis died of childbed fever...
...must replace James M. Curley as mayor of Boston. Not only has Boston lost much of its prestige by having a mayor who spent five months of his previous term in a federal penitentiary, but also it has suffered an enormous loss in dollars and cents from Curley's corrupt administration. Curley practices the philosophy of government that measures its own success by the quantity, never the quality, of the people it employs; disregarding cost, Curley has filled the city's departments with incompetents, sometimes vagrants, merely to keep his employment record high when the election comes around...
...November 8, Cambridge voters will have a chance to continue a record of clean civic administration begun in 1940, when they changed to a Plan E form of government. Ten years ago they substituted a city manager for the mayor, and election by proportional representation for the then corrupt ward system. That change, combined with the election of honest officials, has provided Cambridge with one of the best administrations in this state...
While it is true that the Association has a program, and expects endorsed candidates to vote for it when elected, as long as the CCA continues to use honest vote-getting methods there need be no fear of a return to corrupt machine political. Organization members, representing all political, racial and religious segments of Cambridge, choose the platform, and like any other political group, seek a favorable majority in the government to back...