Word: corrupt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Corrupt." To a newly created fifth Federal judgeship in New Jersey Mr. Roosevelt appointed 53-year-old Thomas F. Meaney, who stepped into his first judgeship 19 years ago, has been a faithful follower of Frank Hague, aging boss of New Jersey and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Roosevelt rejected the man whom Governor Charles Edison wanted...
...Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting to seduce both the Mayor's wife and daughter simultaneously as well as getting delightfully stewed. Such conduct is naturally pleasing to the worried officials until...
...stood to make a profit of $2,140,000 (4,280%) in a single year. Cried he: "If the agreement . . . represents a cross section of conduct on the part of the Defense Plant Corporation . . . we are tolerating the existence of an agency of the Government that is so corrupt as to make profiteering in the last war look like petty larceny by comparison...
Nikolai Gogel's "The Inspector General", a nineteenth century Russian "Louisiana Purchase" has been announced as the choice for the Harvard Dramatic Club's sixty-fifth production. Casting has already been completed with Robert Keahy '45, playing the principle role in this Russian comedy about corrupt politicians...
...civilization. He evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...