Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence: 2) Canadian-born, he had never been naturalized a citizen...
...intention of placing its own candidates in the field for any public office." Just to be on the safe side, however, President Shouse filed with the clerk of the U. S. House the League's annual financial report required of all political organizations under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. Some League investors...
...Elders. Machiavellian, wily and devious are the methods by which the Elders plan to gain their world hegemony. According to the Protocols "he who would rule must have recourse to cunningness and hypocrisy." Biding their time while they contrive the collapse of Christian society, the Elders plan to: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration...
...colleague in the plan is General Philemon Smallwood, C. S. A. (dpy Walter C. Kelly, "The Virginia Judge" of vaudeville and the corrupt Congressman of Both Your Houses). Invalided in Washington, General Smallwood is as crooked a politician as "Ace." Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities. It is a hard blow to both when the first honest deed of their official lives is prematurely discovered, balked. But rapidly reverting to type, each prepares elaborate lies to cover the blunder, part as bitter enemies as they ever were. "Sign it Burdette!" cries "Ace" to his secretary...
...Stone, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has written an article entitled "Public Influence of the Bar," in which he suggests a closer bond between the legal profession and the law schools with a view to encouraging interest among lawyers in law reform. He states that certain corrupt practices are in existence which the bar has made little effort to stamp out be cause it is paying so much attention to individual cases rather than to the law in general...