Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Roosevelt would deal with Tammany, of which the natty little New York Mayor is the popular symbol. If he removed him from office, he might lose New York State in the Presidential election. If he did not. Republicans would charge him with truckling to a corrupt political machine. Meanwhile Tammany Hall "heartily" endorsed the Roosevelt-Garner ticket and the State was startled by a report that, if ousted, Mayor Walker would run for Governor this autumn. Sheathed in this move, if made, would be something that Governor Roosevelt does not like to think about: the knife that Tammany could...
...book: "There are three sides to the Liquor Problem. The Dry Side, the Wet Side and the Right Side! . . . The new Crusader ... is going to make every possible effort to get the old temperance forces to cooperate with him in his present challenge to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the corrupt politician and the gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses...
...National Government." After the assassination of Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai amid a welter of national resentment against "corrupt politicians" (TIME, May 23), Emperor Hirohito commanded Admiral Viscount Saito to form a new Cabinet. When this Cabinet was formed last week it proved to be a "National Government" (as in Great Britain) but almost as full of so-called "corrupt politicians" as the last Seiyukai Party Cabinet headed by "Old Fox." Specifically the Japanese national family was surprised that the Army and the Treasury have been left in exactly the same hands as before...
...Down with the disloyalists!" read the leaflets. "Up with the Emperor! End the old corrupt political leaders! Down with the financial oligarchy! Down with privilege! We are Nationalists?neither of the Left nor Right. We want restoration of the imperial power. Direct action is necessary to save the country...
...journeyed to flat, sun-baked Kankakee, site of the State Insane Asylum, on high political business. One was William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson whom Chicago had booted out as its profligate Mayor the spring before. Another was William Lorimer, expelled in 1912 from the U. S. Senate for employing "corrupt methods and practices in his election." The third was Frank Leslie Smith, barred in 1928 from the U. S. Senate for excessive campaign expenditures. In Kankakee this trio, with many a rowdy follower, called on buck-toothed old Lennington Small, twice (1921-29) Governor of Illinois. Banker Small, whose political...