Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dana's years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform...
...year later his indictment was mysteriously quashed. The prosecutor sought a fresh batch of indictments, got them against all but Engineer Kelly. Four trustees, headed by Timothy Crowe, were convicted after a trial which brought out amazing tales of corrupt extravagance. After 1927 the Sanitary District's expenditures had jumped from 38 to 55 million per year. Its payroll was padded double with nonworkers. It spent $1,000,000 on a useless bridle path along McCormick Boulevard ("From Nowhere to Nowhere") which should have cost less than $300,000. It set up dummy concerns to buy and sell building...
...maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty" in Cuba. Written originally as fire insurance, this amendment became two-edged. In the hands of a tyrant it could be brandished as a weapon and up to last week attempts to overthrow corrupt Cuban Presidents had uniformly failed...
...Coast" was once more the wide-open, hell-roaring district which it had been and which it continued to be until 1913, under the beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff...
...worth of securities, that it had sought to foster the fortunes of the two famous academies at Andover and Exeter, that it had tried to help a much beloved ex-President of the United States to make a little money for his old age and that any corrupt political 'hookup' or intent could not be shown as to its 'preferred customers list.' No tar could be spattered upon the name of Morgan yesterday. So the committee adjourned early. It was, as we say, a dull...