Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble with rascally circulation men, most of whom are trained in the rough-&-tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part...
...Corrupt and incompetent local government received little attention in view of the losses and increased living expenses in the period of inflation after the World War," declared Murray Season-good '00, former mayor of Cincinnati and Godkin Lecturer. "With so much money to be made in business and the professions, it seemed wholly unimportant that the bosses were accumulating huge fortunes illegally...
...trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking and revolting . . . against public policy and corrupt and void...
...Continued) velt drive toward the White House without being ill-tempered or gloomy. A favorite "Ding" theme derives from the Republican charge that Governor Roosevelt has neglected to keep his own state in economic order, has permitted stock speculators, crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run riot through New York while he was trying to sell his presidential services to the country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts...
...difficulties in Denver, as is well known (see The Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there in 1924 and our battles with the privileged interests and corrupt corporate powers that I wrote about in the Beast and the Jungle stories. These powers have circulated many lying stories about me and viciously misrepresented my views on what is popularly known (with much misunderstanding) as the Companionate Marriage. This is not any new kind of marriage but merely a label...