Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...security. There were also promises that: (1) No government official by word or deed would attempt to influence the prices of stocks or bonds. (2) That he believed in "the sacredness of private property and in individualism. (3) That "without becoming a prying bureaucracy" the government would check corrupt financial practices. (4) Special advantages favors, or privileges were to be eliminated by the government...
...conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would it leave their posts vacant? And would it, as some delegates desired, create a new vacancy by retiring Bishop James Cannon Jr. who had arrived triumphantly in Jackson from Washington where a court had acquitted him of corrupt political practices week before...
Thus last week ended the three-week trial of Bishop Cannon and Ada L. Burroughs, on charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, April 23). The Government had claimed that, whereas Bishop Cannon and Secretary Burroughs had reported only $17,300 expenditures in the Bishop's 1928 campaign against Wet Presidential Candidate Al Smith, one contribution alone from Hooverite Edwin C. Jameson had amounted to $65,300. These and other funds, the Government alleged, had been used in Virginia and all over the South. "Bishop Cannon was shooting a double-barreled gun with a single trigger," declared...
Miss Burroughs admitted making "some errors" in her report, but the 69-year-old Bishop's defense claimed that all campaign funds not reported had been spent only within the State of Virginia, were therefore exempt from the Corrupt Practices Act. Having deliberated three hours, a jury in the District of Columbia's Supreme Court chose to believe the Bishop's story...
...Methodist Bishop, who has abhorred alcoholic drink since Ulysses Grant was President. He might have forgotten 1928 but that: 1) a Senate committee called him in 1930 to inquire why he had not reported $48,000 contributed to his anti-Smith campaign; 2) he was indicted under the Corrupt Practices Act in 1931; 3) after his three-year battle to outlaw the indictment the Supreme Court declared it valid; 4) last week he and his confidential secretary were in a District of Columbia Court fighting against conviction on charges that might send them both to jail for two years...