Word: corruption
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Massachusetts, longtime political enemy of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, almost jumped for joy. For Bishop Cannon had just been indicted, with Miss Ada L. Burroughs, bespectacled treasurer of the Virginia Anti-Smith Committee in 1928, both charged with violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It was the same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee and walked out (TIME, June 16, 1930). Miss Burroughs had obdurately refused to testify before the Nye Senate Campaign Funds Committee which then threatened to cite...
...Assistant District Attorney John J. Wilson, who presented the evidence to the Grand Jury last month.) With bond set at $1.000 and the trial slated for some time before Jan. i, Bishop Cannon said he did not fear. He has previously defended his action on the ground that the Corrupt Practices Act deals only with Federal officers. Presidential electors, for whom the money was spent, are State officers, says he. It was indicated that his lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, might file a demurrer to the indictment upon this ground...
Chief feature of the opening night was the appearance of Bishop James Cannon Jr., indicted that day by the Washington Grand Jury for violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (see p. 15). Last month Bishop Cannon was snubbed by Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon who, presiding over a church conference at Roanoke, Va., did not invite Bishop Cannon to sit on the platform. Bishop Cannon complained, left the room unapplauded. In marked contrast last week, 2,000 people in Atlanta's Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts...
...Caesar's Rome, whose government was as corrupt as Manhattan's is now suspected of being, augurs would have found such a pigeon fall ominous, especially because death had come from the east. Haruspices might have inspected the entrails of the birds (extispicy), interpreted the portents. Prognostication would probably have involved, according to the political exigencies of the community, the deaths of conspirators against the commonwealth...
...allow Government to creep into our economic life only by the back door. We are afraid of regulation, primarily because our governments have been corrupt and ugly. Perhaps we keep the State ugly and dishonest as an excuse for turning it away more readily from the portals of business...