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Word: corruptible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder of a girl. In 1927 he obtained the indictments of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis and six councilmen for corrupt office-getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...country from running riot," was the belief expressed by Morrison Sharp '29 last night at a debate conducted by the Harvard Debating Union. "Life imprisonment in the state of New York means on the average six and a half years. Time works for the criminal. Time brings on a corrupt court, and starts the sob sister stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEATH PENALTY IS FAVORED AT UNION | 2/15/1928 | See Source »

Ideals: I. Foreign investors in Mexico should be divested of the extensive rights of exploitation which they bought "legally but unjustly" (say many Mexicans) from previous corrupt Mexican regimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peso Diplomacy | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...applies equally to stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this to corrupt the mind of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holiday Meetings | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...unskilled forgeries and that they joked about them. . . . It is pointed out that the Spanish of the documents is faulty, that the Hearst forces changed the date of one dispatch three times in three consecutive editions, and that no officials of any government which disburses secret funds for corrupt purposes are so stupid as to commit anything to paper. . . . The facts are set forth here for purposes of historical record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Business? | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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