Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anderson, who took the historical liberty of sending a girl friend to Washington at Valley Forge, has his own dramatic explanation of Rudolph's and Mary's deaths. He thinks that Franz Joseph infuriated Rudolph by ordering his separation from Mary when Rudolph wanted to leave the corrupt court and marry her. He guesses that Rudolph was approached by Hungarian separatists at this critical time and accepted a proposal that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph...
...After a few samples, the mere threat of strike is usually enough to keep businessmen in line. The racketeer employs sluggings, bombings, window-smashings as supplementary discipline. But he shrinks from murder, resorts to an occasional killing only to prove that he means business. Hand in glove with the corrupt labor union usually works a "trade association." Sometimes it is organized by racketeers who force reputable businessmen to serve as a front...
...action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will be easier to corrupt than two, unicameralists expect exactly the opposite because the legislators cannot dodge responsibility, because being relatively few in number their individual acts will be in the limelight...
...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...
...President Hutchins claims to spring from first hand study of the classic authors, whose books have "the premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort to plunge through such morasses unaided. Commentaries and lectures which show...