Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite edges of the continent. Their characters and cases were similarly antipodal. One was a member of an old and distinguished family, having a judge for a father, a university dean for a brother. The other was a shanty Irish agitator. Complaint against one was that he was a corrupt official. The other claimed that he was the victim of corrupt officialdom...
...indictment of Bishop James Cannon Jr. on charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931 et ante): a sustaining decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
...pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string along with the corrupt kosher poultry "trust"' (two who did not were shot down last year in Brooklyn and Queens), the broiler may have poison or kerosene sprinkled over him by a band of "the Boys," ex-convicts and plug-uglies who police the trust. Even the butcher on the quiet street...
...gained control of the Legislature and no relief can be obtained from that source . . . has boasted publicly that he controlled its members like a deck of cards, bought them like loads of potatoes . . . escaped impeachment by bribery and other corrupt methods...
...personally dishonest, corrupt and immoral and his continuance in office is repulsive ... to the nation...