Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NOBODY'S VINEYARD- H. C. Bailey-^k Crime Club ($2). Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town. A highly rewarding yarn...
...hundred years ago broad-shouldered, poker-faced Francisco Morazáán, a fighting man who dreamed of democracy and unity in the corrupt and revolt-torn states of Central America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...
...deny that our political judgment must, at the minimum, excel that of many voters of today--citizens who support Hamilton Fish by a three-to-one plurality, citizens who elect singing flour-salesmen to the Senate, citizen-suckers for vaudeville shows at political functions, citizen-cowards returning corrupt political machines year in and year out? Sturtevant Hobbs...
Democracies Not Corrupt...
Democracies, according to Kohn, are much freer from corruption than dictatorships, for dictatorships will not allow people to say what they want and publicize corrupt officials. "The best way to destroy corruption is to publicize it," said Kohn...