Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunshine. Cabled TIME Correspondent Simon Bourgin: "The elections were the most corrupt and boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...
...game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were the forces that Molotov's visiting envoys had at their beck...
...that power tends to corrupt...
This week the Democrats got ready to follow up. A House committee will begin an investigation to see whether there has been any violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (the law covering campaign expenditures). The inquiry might serve to offset the same congressional probing of P.A.C...
...What they want from us more than anything else is encouragement," he said of the general political situation there. "They had the corrupt, warlords out and a reform program well under way when the Japanese invasion came along and upset everything...