Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago had to make up for ten years of inept and corrupt public-school administration. For months, a reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold...
...party politics is laced with corruption in China, Chen feels no personal shame. He has never used his public position to enrich himself. U.S. Ambassador Leighton Stuart says: "I defy anyone to prove that Chen Li-fu is corrupt." Nobody ever has. Says Chen: "The real problem is not corruption but the economic crisis springing out of our long period of war, just as the American Civil War gave birth to a period of low public morality. Confucius said, 'Without a full stomach one cannot speak of high principles.' . . ." Chen adds: "When man's natural desires...
...inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican Republic has no ideology: he is no Fascist in the European sense. He is more a compound of the Oriental despot and the more corrupt of U.S. city bosses: from seizure, framed elections and the other activities of dictatorship, he and his henchmen have profited in the millions...
Determined to give full value, the au thor has trimmed his sexy romance with conscientious trappings of history. The action runs from 1866 to 1874 and is bound up with the bloody struggle in Louisiana between Negro freedmen, corrupt carpetbaggers and diehard slave owners. The leading figures are exquisite: evil Hugh Duncan, who employs the terrorist Knights of the White Camellia, and Laird Fournois, masterful friend of the black...
...Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except Denise...