Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional sport performers none receives less respect from the Press than the wrestler. Sportwriters think nothing of calling wrestlers stupid, shady, corrupt. But any who might have assumed that a wrestler could not be libelled learned the contrary last fortnight when famed Stanislaus Zbyszko was awarded damages from Hearst's New York American...
...sudden and dizzy eminence of virtue, to her comfortable post-war role of the protesting victim. For sixty years Chicago has been a great, a wealthy, and a powerful city. And for almost sixty years her industrious citizenry has submitted to the control of an incredibly arrogant, mendacious, and corrupt chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues into sharp relief. There is a serious hiatus in the democratic theory of government when it is applied to a teeming modern city, without the increasingly popular device of reserving administrative power to a non-partisan...
...telephone booths along the wall to brokers on the floor. Employes often gather up several orders for the same bond at the same time. It is to a broker's interest to get his order first and also to find out the amount of the other orders. Corrupt employes went first to the broker who had tipped him (or tipped him most), delivered his order, told him the size of the other orders. Opportunity for corruption also exists along the same lines in obtaining quotations. If several firms seek quotations simultaneously, it is to the advantage of a broker...
...final lecture of the Godkin Series, Murray Seasongood '00 former Mayor of Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon offered as a remedy for corrupt and inefficient municipal government a new educational treatment of local government, with more emphasis placed on the importance of the city in the everyday life of the individual. He issued a call to college men to abandon their aloofness to city affairs and to graduates to take part in this most vital form of government...
Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...