Word: corrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forthwith, Mayor Dreier filed a $100,000 libel suit against the Independent for running an ad which pictured him as "unscrupulous, dishonest and corrupt." When Dreier's case against the Independent came to trial, the paper was ready for him. It put on the stand a cop who testified that he had paid Dreier $50 as a down payment for his job on the force. It also came out that city workers had fixed up the mayor's house with some $9,000 worth of improvements just before its tax assessment was reduced. Dreier's secretary stepped...
Premier Hilary Pasha's deadline was May 18. Unless Hilaly, who is able but has no following, could in the meantime win public support, the powerful and corrupt Wafd opposition was sure to win the general election. Hilaly needed to score a diplomatic success with the British. Last week the British were not helpful...
...This year the Republican Party has a fine opportunity to oust the corrupt machine that has misgoverned us since 1932. Let us take advantage of this and pick the best man, Mr. Republican, himself...
...Because Governor Driscoll has broken his word and has obviously taken steps to corrupt the intent of the preference primary in New Jersey, I have decided not to contend for the preference vote in the New Jersey primary on April 15. Reversing his previous position, Governor Driscoll . . . announced his open support of General Eisenhower, and one of his leading political associates . . . said at the same time that the state Republican organization will actively campaign for the election of General Eisenhower...
Franz and Lili Engel, with their little son Bubi, fled Vienna after their shop was bombed, and Franz had spent months in Buchenwald. In a corrupt and decadent Cairo they live in desperate debt, with Franz confined to a wheelchair and Lili enduring insults and dishonor to make ends meet. A fellow Austrian urges them to go back to Vienna. But just then their U.S. visas come through-only for the consulate's doctor to find that Franz' condition, despite his heroic efforts to hide it, is hopeless. Only by swallowing poison can he set his wife...