Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe the proposal in the Coordination Bill, to place the control of the Massachusetts police under a police board, will lead to corrupt politics and will hinder the efficiency of the whole organization," said George C. Benson, Instructor of government, when interviewed yesterday. "Any student of police methods knows that the trend is away from board control toward that of a single executive. Moreover, the bill states that the board shall have a majority of police chiefs, who will raise the standard of the force by granting subsidies to forces who have faithfully carried out their duties. These...
This has carried me into a discussion of those who join lobbies, of those who fight corruption, and of those who have actually mixed in politics. It is foolish to think of any student group bucking corruption or in any other way making a dent in the political set-up as it exits today. But where the student can find his way behind the scenes, where he can fight some political grafter, where he can make his mark felt, he ought to participate to some degree, NOT because he is entering politics or public life or in any other...
...among the first to give a meaning to meaningless words by raising them from small to large type. But his contribution is really far greater than that. For it is he who has discovered the necessity and utility of writing letters to the papers. Of course, someday some corrupt biographer in the employ of the Bank of France may point out that he waited until he had a poem (so-called) on every newsstand round about (note: The Advocate came out day before yesterday) before bursting into print in any given locality. But any future charge that...
Roosevelt can rely, and has to count, on a vast public ignorance of the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren, on a press fairly corrupt, but sainted and pure by comparison with that of England and France, on the very slow distribution of all informative books on ALL subjects, and on the refusal of American publishing houses to take over the lead from London when they had the chance (now lost...
...city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...