Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remorseful Radovich sold his war bonds and gave the money to the Army. Last week he was under detention at Mitchel Field. Martin Bayer was still in the U.S. in spite of everything. Cousin Morris was overseas. Jerome Usdan was held in $5,000 bail, charged with conspiracy to corrupt an Army officer, FBI agents were looking for Samuel and Elias Bayer, wanted on the same charge...
Before this scrutiny began, the people had known two main and contradictory facts about Harry Truman: 1) that he was once the beholden creature of Kansas City's behemoth boss, Tom Pendergast, as corrupt a machine politician as the U.S. has seen in this century; 2) that Truman has done an excellent job as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee...
...supply was chaotic, soldiers were exhausted from long marches, liaison was fantastically bad, command corrupt and inept. At the Masurian Lakes one Russian commander deployed his corps by plain-language radio orders, stupidly tipped off the Germans...
What Will the U.S. Do? The confusion extended to nearly every Italian. People with not enough money for proper food bought newspaper after newspaper, pathetically looking for guidance. Impartially they read Communist, Socialist, Vatican, Monarchist or Republican papers-anything that might offer a glimmer of light. A generation of corrupt Fascism, months of brutal German occupation, sapped their capacity to think for themselves. Italians were the children of a dead past, facing an uncertain future. In bewilderment they asked: "What will Britain do? Russia? Above all, what will America do?" They never asked: "What will...
...labor National Citizens P.A.C. partially as a sort of holding company for campaign funds. This move satisfied the Hillman lawyers that the N.C.P.A.C. could boom the Roosevelt-Truman ticket as much as it liked and remain within: 1) the Hatch Act; 2) the Smith-Connally amendment to the Corrupt Practices...