Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clocks and comical distorting mirrors imported from Coney Island. In 1950, fired by neighboring India, a revolution at last unseated the despotic Ranas, and Tribhubana was set up as a true king, but the "democratic rule" he promptly proclaimed turned out to be only that of a pack of corrupt politicians. Last month, lying ill in Nice, he formally turned the whole job over to his eldest son, Prince Mahendra...
...when." said Evangelist Billy Graham, "because the holy Bible definitely teaches that Christ is coming back to this world! . . . First, He will disturb the economic life. There are thousands of economic injustices . . . Second, He will disturb the political status quo. The dictators, the aggressors, the crafty politicians and corrupt political systems . . . will be objects of His wrath. Third, He will disturb the social status quo . . . Fourth, He will also disturb the religious status quo. The most scathing denunciations that Christ gave 2,000 years ago were against religious leaders...
Eskay Patil fired corrupt, naive and inefficient Congress ward bosses. While Nehru spoke softly abroad of Communists, Patil plastered Andhra with lurid pictures of Communist atrocities in Red China (TIME, Jan. 31). He exploited the fall of Malenkov as proof of Communist failure and decay. "Five acres per peasant -we will give you land," the Communists insistently proclaimed. "Give the Reds your vote," Eskay Patil responded, "and you give away your freedom...
...whether Bangkok would not do better to spend its energy to clean up its politics rather than its streets. Contented and traditionally independent (more than 700 years), Thailand is the only frankly pro-Western ally along the southeast border of Red China. But its government is also autocratic and corrupt. Communist propa ganda makes heavy capital of these facts, but for the most part the amiable Siamese themselves, generally smiling and invariably well-fed, seem not to give a hoot...
...benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters, the corrupt local officials, the Communistic subversives who would undermine and overthrow our Government with bloodshed and terror such as we have seen abroad . . . are no more dangerous to the country at large than the judges [and lawyers], many of them amiable gentlemen, who oppose either openly or covertly every change in procedural...