Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Towards breaking up such a strongly entrenched party, a minority political faction is important, Senator Walsh pointed out, and added that the Demo- cratic party will be important in the approaching campaign in bringing to light corrupt practices...
...Harvard Union, referred to the 1928 presidential campaign. Senator Walsh paid no attention to the stock issues of the campaign, utterly ignoring matters pertaining to A1 Smith, the League of Nations, or prohibition, but he railled at the Republican party, its methods of operation, its organization, and its corrupt practices...
Then the sandbagging, prolonged and vigorous: "On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding was inaugurated. ... On that day corrupt and sinister financial conspiracies . . . took possession of the Government . . . bribes . . . scaly hands . . . conspirators. . . . "The first act of Coolidge was to approve the policies of the Harding Administration. . . . Coolidge continued at the head of the Department of Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive...
...fight with all my strength the theories and ideas aiming to subvert, corrupt or disintegrate religion, love of country and family...
...allowed the outrageous abuses of the so-called "Parliamentary" Government in Spain to go on, one set of politicians simply filled their pockets and gave way to another set of politicians who did the same. Before the Great War, King Alfonso often said to his intimate friends : "These corrupt politicians in Spain will end by losing my throne for me." After the Great War, the clever Alfonso seized the opportunity, when it came, to save his throne and reform the Government by a dictatorship, which was the only possible way to do it. I am posting you a magazine...