Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whereas the attending upon stage plays, interludes and theatrical entertainments tends greatly to corrupt the morals of a people and particularly with respect to the college must needs . . . be highly detrimental to their learning by taking off their minds from their studies, drawing them into such company as may be very ensnaring to them, expensive to their parents and tending to many other disorders: Therefore, Voted that if any undergraduate shall presume to be an actor in, a spectator at, or any ways concerned in any such . . . plays . . . in the town of Cambridge or elsewhere he shall for the first...
...contest between the popular will, which surged up behind the young (46). Huk-tighting national hero, Ramon Magsaysay, and the corruption-pocked regime of ailing President Elpidio Quirino. Quirino men who came to power in a corrupt election four years ago had orders to win at all costs. The country seethed with reports-some true, some floated by the opposition-of administration money to juggle poll-watching police and army officers, to stuff ballot boxes, to buy Quirino votes and to intimidate Magsaysay voters...
...weeks ago a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, digging for the roots of U.S. policy, talked to some American farmers, found they disapproved of Chinese Communists on moral grounds. A thought struck the Guardian man. If these moralistic Americans, he wrote, could be told that Chiang Kai-shek was corrupt, they might take a more reasonable view. The news the Guardian man missed: the charges against Chiang are not news to any American able to read or listen to the radio. The Americans have long since put Chiang in perspective and have gone on from there to pay reasonably close...
...Opposed by nothing but the wreckage of a Democratic organization when the campaign began. New Jersey Republicans have been their own worst enemies. Within the year, the G.O.P. administration's prestige and control have been tarnished by exposés of big-time gambling payoffs in corrupt Bergen County. A former clerk in Governor Alfred E. Driscoll's office was indicted for accepting bribes to arrange "protection." Driscoll himself hurt the G.O.P. by declining to back any candidate in the early stages of the campaign, while he made up his own mind whether to run again...
...does not detract from the nobility of the aim provided its imperfection is recognized and admitted. Many who went on the Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept...