Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate to the Howlands' onetime gardener, who has bettered himself financially by bootlegging. The last women seen at "Tall Trees," now a roadhouse, are the gardener's earthy wife and a tipsy society woman who shows up on the opening night...
...taken a degree in Political Science at Haverford College, Pa., exhorted the laundrymen to Organize. They did, and soon ran afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged at the Association for "sucking the blood and sweat out of the Chinese...
Like Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt knows the psychological value of the public party purge. Four times has the Administration cleaned up relief muddles- in Massachusetts, Georgia, North Dakota, Oklahoma-before the political Opposition could start fulminating. Last week, on "evidence concerning corrupt political interference with relief in the State of Ohio," the President again beat scandalmongers to the gun by ordering FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins to remove Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey from all connection with Federal Relief Administration...
...fairly by no other name, was to help pay off the deficit of your campaign and the expenses of your inaugural." Specifically, the evidence which had come to Mr. Hopkins' attention was a sheaf of affidavits, which he had sent his own investigators out to get, alleging the corrupt collection of $8,000. Republican Legislators at once howled for Davey's impeachment...
...crusading editor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; of heart disease while driving his automobile; near Stockton, Calif. Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support by his own paper...