Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of Tammany scandals assumed even greater poignancy when Prosecutor Kresel produced the record of one Mary Felder, accused by six witnesses of shoplifting, who was twice brought before Magistrate Silbermann, twice dismissed. Her lawyer was the magistrate's "great friend" Mark Alter, now accused of bribing a corrupt prosecutor in many a Women's Court case...
Cautious Governor. Meanwhile New York citizens who were revolted by corrupt conditions in city courts as revealed by Prosecutor Kresel turned hopefully to Albany and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. During last year's campaign Governor Roosevelt, a candidate for reelection, had touched on the city scandals only most gingerly. So shy was he about taking a strong clean stand against Tammany Hall that he was widely charged with protecting Tammany Hall in return for its votes...
Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
...courts, New York's most colorful and wealthiest alleged racketeer-long, loose-jointed, big-mouthed Larry Fay, indicted a year ago for collecting "dues" from milk dealers (TIME, Oct. 29, 1929)-came into renewed prominence. He was not at either session in person. The Appellate Division, investigating corrupt city magistrates (TIME, Aug. 25), heard tell of a little black notebook in which Fay once kept useful telephone numbers. Hearings on milk rackets more recent than that for which Fay was indicted chanced upon evidence that he may be still the milk gangs' overlord. But observers thought it unlikely...
Lorenzaccio's Libretto proved to have greater distinction than its music. The central character is a henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio...