Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan the Government of the Old Fox is so widely discredited as corrupt and reactionary that as recently as fortnight ago Japanese capitalists in Manhattan and Tokyo were laying election bets amongst themselves at odds of three to two against the Old Fox. But once more he outsmarted everyone...
...should not fall on the undergraduates. The students are just as fine, just as intelligent, and just as good moral Americans as ever, if not a great deal better than in years past. The incident of blame is first on the American system of living, big cities, fast automobiles, corrupt politics, cheap shows, and above all on that exceedingly intelligent law our fathers concoated Prohibition. The second incident is on Yale University on its too small Faculty, and on its unstable society...
...lowest, 135 pounds. The house team is the extreme of informality in football--too much "maybe" and "who cares". The men who play 150-pound want the work, the competition, the team-play of a University team, among men of their own size and weight. If I may corrupt a popular advertisement, "Ask the man who has played...
...Last week in New York the U. S. Attorney (Republican) announced that Democrats escaped prosecution by one day under the statute of limitations for violation of the Corrupt Practices Act in reporting their 1928 campaign expenditures. An accounting had failed to itemize a pay roll...
With a hasty word here & there Mr. Smith glosses over the massacres and riots that once were such vivid reminders of Chicago; and over Alphonse ("Scarface" ) Capone and Cicero. Swashbuckling William Hale Thompson is never mentioned by name. Corrupt governments act-politely adumbrated. Of the city's newspapers the only mention concerns their buildings...