Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later when Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina entered a cabinet meeting arm in arm with Eduardo Vuletich, boss of Argentine labor. By this gesture, labor, the other support of Peronismo, served notice that it shared the army's discontent. Taking the floor, Vuletich attacked allegedly corrupt officials, notably the President's private secretary, Juan Duarte, brother of the late Eva Perón. When a Perón sycophant tried to change the subject, General Sosa Molina glared at him and barked, "Shut...
Before Jones predicted a whitewash, he should have remembered last year's investigations into corruption in government. They "proved" that the "overwhelming majority" of government employees were honest--over 99.6 percent, if we remember correctly. But the news was of the corrupt, and the entire government service stood convicted in the eyes of the public...
...Civil War, Lenin decided to remove hostile, corrupt and unreliable elements from his organization and created the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, called Rabkrin (to purge the administration), and the Orgburo (to purge the party). Joseph Stalin directed both. Soon he was running the party's day-to-day business. Early in 1922 the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee was created for him. The title suited him: it sounded innocuous. Stalin was ever contemptuous of trappings; the job could be made all powerful, and to Stalin, reality counted...
...Trotsky Hated Us." Stalin rationalized the great purges of '37 and '38 to Budu as simply part of a moral cleanup. "The French Revolution collapsed because of the degeneration of the morals of its leaders, who surrounded themselves with loose women." Trotsky, he said, was "not corrupt . . . but he carries within himself another danger that a popular revolution can't tolerate: he's an individualist to his fingertips, a hater of the masses ... He hated us and he despised...
...near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star again struck at the Pendergast machine. But this time, said Roberts, under the Truman Administration the FBI came in only...