Word: corrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a fixed and certain fact," wrote New York City's Democratic Mayor Fernando Wood to the city common council 18 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, "why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master-to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce...
...Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election: popular Mayor H. (for Harold) Roe Bartle...
Bartle was not the coalition's target. The real enemy was City Manager L. P. (for Laurie Perry) Cookingham, 62, hired by the reform Citizens Association when it took over in 1940. In the pre-1940 high-flying days of Tom Pendergast's corrupt rule, after-hours liquor sales were a big business, and so were gambling and prostitution; the businessman's lunch hour at the popular Chesterfield Club on Ninth Street was famous for its stark-naked waitresses. City Manager Cookingham cleaned up the town, got going on new roads, schools, sewers, etc., created an environment...
When King Kalakaua-the "Merry Monarch,'' elected by the legislature two years after the end of the Kamehameha dynasty-ratified a reciprocal trade treaty with the U.S. in 1875, Hawaii boomed in earnest. But then, embroiled with a corrupt legislature and a Svengali-like adventurer, Kalakaua lost his grip; scandals raged as the spendthrift King kicked the public debt from $388,000 to $2,600,000 until, in 1887, he was forced to sign a new constitution stripping himself of his near-totalitarian powers...
...want palm-tree justice," says one of Ayub's ministers, and a Western diplomat calls the new regime "a relaxed dictatorship." The velvet glove has been more apparent than the iron fist, and as a result some of the old black-marketing, corrupt ways were returning. But last week the government took its first decisive action against the corrupt in high places...