Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Kohn stated that our sense of values have been altered by the war. Some of us have believed as the Nazis said that Fascism and Communism were the only practical systems and that democracy is too corrupt...
...affairs is also a crisis in journalism. Fundamentally and at bottom the reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The bigger reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. They lead men by lies and fraud to desire and acquiesce in their own enslavement. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...
Hinky and John then made a deal: John could have the office, Hinky would be ward boss; John could make the speeches, Hinky could have the influence. This partnership worked beautifully. The ward had as corrupt voting practices as any in the U.S. Hinky Dink picked all the ballot watchers and judges. Al Capone's machine would vote for Hink's men; Hink would tell his counters to "count straight-and a little more" for Capone's favorites...
...years he had cleaned up more filth than any other municipal investigator in U.S. history, had mopped up $1,000,000 worth of graft, had swept out gambling and vice rackets which took in $20,000,000 a year, had pitchforked nearly a dozen city officials and scores of corrupt policemen. Now the middeny stables were sweet-smelling again. The name of this Hercules: Homer Ferguson...
Said the Newark Evening News, which has supported the President in the war effort: "For all their protestations of good government, Mr. Roosevelt and his Attorney General find it possible in the midst of a great war to do a turn for a corrupt political machine. . . . What made Mr. Meaney 'superior' was the fact that he was Boss Hague's candidate...