Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Commerce: YOUR ORGANIZATION COULD DO NO BETTER WORK THAN TO DISCIPLINE NEWSPAPERS THAT RESORT TO CORRUPT PRACTICES...
...married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit" to occupy the bench on which she had so proudly sat for twelve happy years...
...frankly realistic about this question? We have had enough experience already to convince us that the office does not seek the man. So long as educated and virtuous men play the role of the shrinking violet public offices will be filled by the uneducated, the self-seeking and the corrupt. There is no hope for democracy unless intelligent and honest men run for office. They will have little success in the race for office unless they are trained for it. They will not be well trained unless colleges and universities train them...
...unfortunate that young Author Craven, like young Charles Wertenbaker (Boojum!) and others, has chosen to imitate an individualist whose style is as hard to approximate as that of A. E. Housman. Author Hemingway, luring parodists but defying copyists, has perhaps done more to corrupt young U. S. writers than strong drink...
Steffens was born in San Francisco (1866) but he took the whole corrupt U. S. to be his province. He learned about city politics from Manhattan of the 1890's. first as police reporter on the Evening Post, then as city editor of The Commercial Advertiser. His personal popularity with crooks and grafters, combined with unassailable integrity and a trenchant style, soon put him in the first rank of reformist journalism, in the forefront of those of whom his great & good friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers." Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine...