Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indignant denial that Boston is corrupt is nearly as old as Boston's corruption itself. This week Cardinal Cushing added himself to the city's defenders: he insisted that the implications of a nationally televised film showing police visiting a bookie joint on Massachusetts Avenue were false, meaningless, and irresponsible...
Clearly, if there is sufficient evidence of police corruption to disgust the Governor and to send the city into a stew, Cardinal Cushing's defense can be dismissed as an irrational view of a question on which he simply was not qualified to pronounce. Unfortunately, the Cardinal has done more than speak out of turn; like the Protestant ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need...
...trying to defend the corrupt administration of the pre-war Chiang Kai-shek government that, to a great extent, was responsible for the Communist takeover of the China mainland. But if I had to choose between two evils, I would choose the lesser...
...first Reformation, in the 16th century, caused the breakup of a church so encrusted with corruption that it had lost much of its power to transmit the power and the glory of God to man. Into this glittering desert of faith the reformers threw their prophetic insights to have them seized and shared like bread among the starving; and the counterreformers on the Roman Catholic side pruned back their corrupt and dying tree of faith to a new life...
...stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know." Cagney's ten-year-old son, hopefully, when the boss's daughter has a fainting spell: "If she dies can I have my room back?" First Communist, bitterly: "Is everybody in this world corrupt?" Second Communist, thoughtfully: "I don't know everybody...