Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Radio Yenan: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, "corrupt and rabble-like" (but armed with "large numbers of field guns, trench mortars and American-supplied bazookas") had attacked Communist troops in the Shensi border region. It was "fullscale civil war. . . . Chiang's divisions declared that fighting the Communists comes first and fighting the Japanese comes second...
...then there is the third group, the Central Government of China led by Chiang Kai-shek and men who are mostly Western-trained students, from America and England. There are unquestionably some who have been in power too long, are reactionary, even corrupt. But on the whole they have been loyal to the ideas and ideals they learned here and have tried their best under enormous difficulties to make China a sister republic in Asia...
...Moscow, Izvestia attacked the Chungking Government as corrupt, defeatist and reaction ary. In San Francisco, Tung Pi-wu, Communist member of China's delegation to the security conference, issued a 31 -page memorandum extol ling the Chinese Communists and berating the Chungking Government...
...world. He was deep in debt when he was approached by a group of Britons who, like Sickles himself, had bought shares in the Erie Railroad and now feared the loss of their investments. Sickles made a sudden dash to New York, and in a lightning coup deposed the corrupt, redoubtable Jay Gould from the presidency of Erie. When the flabbergasted tycoon suggested that in future they team up together, Sickles knocked him senseless with his crutch, hurled him through a window (Gould landed in a bed of violets). Then Sickles rushed back to Madrid with a small fortune...
Died. Thomas Joseph Pendergast, 71, most notorious political boss of the century; of heart disease; in Kansas City. Son of a teamster, old "TJ." built a small Democratic ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore...