Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially in Moscow this week Young Communist headquarters summed up against pampered Stuck-Up Stakhanovites: "It is high time to deal drastically with the vulgar and servile people who corrupt and spoil our glorious noble youth...
...Treasurer Clements and Walter L. Townsend, a brother of Dr. Townsend. The ostensible purpose of the House investigation is to determine whether Messrs. Townsend & Clements might be using the mails to defraud their followers, whether any of their income is being spent in political campaigns in violation of the Corrupt Practices...
...scene of the crime were identified as Leopold's, and Loeb and Leopold blandly confessed that they had killed Bobby Franks "for a thrill." In one of his greatest forensic efforts, Lawyer Clarence Darrow threw his clients on the mercy of the court, explained that they were psychologically corrupt, quoted from Omar Khayyam, got them off with 99-year sentences. This autumn Leopold will have completed twelve years of his term. Loeb completed his last week...
Died. Harvey Parnell, 55, onetime (1928-32) Governor of Arkansas whose administration was characterized by the Arkansas House of Representatives as the "most corrupt since the days of Reconstruction"; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock...
...appeared in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, in an article by Drs. Theophil Klingmann & William Hillebrand Everts of Ann Arbor, Mich. Although there are not many more than 100,000 narcotic addicts in the U. S., they occur in every section of society and corrupt their friends. Most of the addicts take morphine...