Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
...Primer continues: "To the average American, politicians are crooks. . . . The truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. The people corrupt the politicians. . . . Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. . . . Let's become politicians ourselves...
...attempt to amuse, or to be as he thinks smart, a liar in the daytime, and a liar in the nighttime, it is remarkable how he can lie. . . . That would make no difference to this 'revolving,' constitutional, unmitigated, infamous liar, this low-lived, double-crossing, dishonest, corrupt scoundrel who claims to be a columnist...
Gide openly admitted his perversion, was often denounced for the influence which critics believed it exerted through his writing. "There is only one word for such a man," thundered one critic, ". . . that word is demonical. [Gide is] a soul of appalling lucidity whose whole art is to corrupt." Retorted Gide: "I was persuaded that each human being . . . had a role to play on this earth, his only, that resembled none other; so that any attempt to surrender oneself to a common rule seemed to my eyes as treason ... to be likened to that great sin against the Holy Ghost...
...believe that it is demonstrable that every one of these elements is equally prevalent in the Democratic Party. But there is a difference: in the Democratic Party they are entrenched, they are geographically integrated and supported by an ancient prejudice, and by corrupt and brazen political machines. While in the Republican Party they are scattered and unsupported by effective political organizations...