Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only an impression at first sight . . . Has Mr. Ruiz Cortines jailed any of his former Cabinet colleagues of the Aleman era? Has he taken away from them the hundreds of thousands or millions of pesos which they had received illegally and corruptly ? Why has he done nothing of this kind? ... If he only had tried to do it, he would have been dead the very day his purpose became known to all these corrupt people who have, today as yesterday, more power and more influence than the decent people like Mr. Ruiz Cortines...
...judgment of an expert manager, the intuition of a poker player, and-according to his enemies-some of the tactics of a Washington five-percenter. He has supported some governments, worked for the fall of others he didn't get along with, and was closely allied with the corrupt Wafdist Party. When the Wafdists came to power in 1951. they quashed some 140 tax evasion suits against his interests. Nevertheless, when Strongman Naguib took over last year and was asked what he intended to do about Abboud, he replied: "Give him every possible help to go right on with...
Jenner told of evidence that a "small but dangerous group" of Moscow-directed teachers is "attempting constantly to corrupt other teachers, students, and teaching materials for the weakening and ultimate destruction of our country...
...Dickerson's most spectacular testimony: that a considerable part of Governor Driscoll's political success stemmed from a Republican tie-up with Democratic machines in both Jersey City and Hoboken. In 1949, Dickerson testified, he had done his best to help Democrat John V. Kenny beat the corrupt Hague machine in Jersey City. His best was good enough; Kenny displaced Hague's nephew as mayor of Jersey City and Hague as boss of Hudson County. In return, said Dickerson, Kenny's Democratic machine slammed on the brakes during the autumn gubernatorial campaign; Jersey City and surrounding...
From that day, young Captain Nasser, the son of a postal clerk, began ten years of underground preparation for the day when the corrupt Farouk would be overthrown. Service in the disastrous Palestine wars brought him a bad shoulder wound, increased his bitterness at Egypt's wretched regime, and intensified his determination. By 1949 he had enlisted seven trusted young officers. "I trained and brought up all the officers in the Free Movement," says Nasser. "I spent ten years on them. I tested them all without them knowing it." When the time came, Nasser and the others looked...