Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lyons, Old Guard leader of the prolonged war against city-streamlining Plan E and well-known to Harvard men for his anti-snow policies, has been indicted by the crew-cut, crusading prosecutor on charges of corrupt practices...
...seeds of trouble were sown back in 1933 when a brash, swarthy sergeant named Fulgencio Batista and several fellow sergeants ousted the corrupt officers' clique that controlled the Government and made themselves overlords of the shark-shaped island. Batista became boss. He promoted himself to Commander in Chief of the Army and pinned a colonel's epaulets on his shoulders. To Sergeant Jose Pedraza he gave the national police, and Sergeant Angel Gonzalez got the Navy. When he offered Sergeant Pedraza the rank of major, that worthy replied: "Don't bother. I've already made myself...
Lolly Parsons nearly fell out of her chair. On the preview screen before her, Orson Welles, the bearded boy, was playing Citizen Kane, a corrupt newspaper publisher, in a way that reminded Cinecolumnist Parsons irresistibly of her boss-William Randolph Hearst. The seed of suspicion had been deftly implanted in the Parsons mind a week before. She had not been included among Hollywood's journalistic elite (her rival Hedda Hopper, Timesman Douglas Churchill, Look's Jim Crow) who saw the initial preview of R. K. O.'s & Orson Welles's Citizen Kane...
...racketeering, David Dubinsky raised the lament in the wilder ness heard by John Lewis in Atlantic City. Dubinsky and his fellow delegates from the International Ladies' Garment Work ers Union proposed a resolution giving the Executive Council of the Federation summary power to oust union officials guilty of corrupt practices or "moral turpitude." President Green throttled the idea, contending it would destroy the autonomy of unions. Dubinsky threatened to carry his resolution to the floor for a fight...
Thomas E. Dewey: "[The third-term movement] was conceived in secrecy, nourished on cynicism and reared in arrogance to its ugly maturity by the most corrupt elements of American political life...