Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land that Ayub took over five months ago was so corrupt that even such tolerant agencies as CARE and the Catholic Relief Services had given up on it; gifts clearly labeled NOT TO BE SOLD invariably ended up, not in the hands of the hungry, but in the hands of the black-marketeers. Soon the effects of the bloodless military takeover began to be felt. Streets became clean, bus queues orderly, scooter-ricksha boys unexpectedly polite. Instead of dragging themselves to work any hour of the morning, government clerks began showing up at 9. General Ayub jailed about 100 politicos...
...prove during a four-week investigation of the nation's $2 billion-a-year coin-machine industry that: 1) organized thugs are successfully moving in on big-city coin-machine operations, especially in the jukebox business and in pinball games; 2) principal tool of the thugs is the corrupt labor union, endowed with all the protection extended by law to legitimate labor. Said McClellan: "The ease with which some of these unions were created -not only locals but entire internationals . . . has no relation to the legitimate labor objectives...
Amid the confusion, the Cabinet did its best to get a few things done. It drew up a plan to replace Batista's corrupt lottery with a lottery-bond program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with...
...most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...
Informed public opinion is in itself an effective deterrent of labor racketeering, he stated. "It is my belief that the enemies of the union members are official indifference and money," Cohn asserted. Corrupt labor bosses are often financed by employers who find bribery cheaper than paying fair wages, he lamented...