Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamour about money changing in high places. Lyons was convicted and sentenced to jail. The "Boston Post" commented editorially, "The...case in Cambridge was more than a mere conviction by a jury...It indicated city politics as played in the modern age..."how many other cities are as corrupt as Cambridge...
...success or failure of City Manager government depends on the personalities of the Manager and the members of the City Council. A strong Council with shady motives governing with a weak Manager could result in the most corrupt of administrations...
...policy of supporting all anti-Communist countries, no matter how corrupt or undemocratic their governments may be, led to the debacle in China, and can lose the cold war for us if it is followed on a world-wide scale. The ideological side of the present struggle is more important in the long run than the military phase, and the only way to win it is to discourage all undemocratic elements in the West...
Philadelphia's ancient and grimy Re publican political machine has controlled the city for more than seven decades by judiciously keeping it corrupt and con tent. But two years ago, when municipal employees demanded $5,000,000 in wage raises, Philadelphia's bosses made a fright ful mistake. They passed the buck to a committee of fifteen prominent citizens. Instead of sportingly recommending tax boosts, the committee proposed that the city simply save the money by operating more efficiently. It began investigating municipal affairs to find out how it could be done...
...Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...