Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because it wanted such publicity but because it could not avoid it under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, the Republican National Committee last week filed with Congress a statement of its political revenue from June to September, together with a list of its big contributing patrons. Total G. O. P. contributions reported...
...become so long that it can no longer lift its own weight and it is respectfully suggested that a Society be formed for the aid and guidance of corrupt magistrates and feeble minded legislators
...TIME, June 23 et seq.). But again the actual murder case was obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...
After a 23-day barrage of political evidence a jury at Sheboygan. Wis. last week refused to believe that their Governor, Walter Jodok Kohler. plumbing tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"). had violated the Corrupt Practice Act in winning his high office in 1928 (TIME. May 5). The Act limits campaign expenditures to $4,000. The state's prosecutors failed to prove their charge that Governor Kohler had spent $100,000 politically through his plumbing plant and the campaign activities of his employes...
...that she had bought a great many Poiret gowns she had no recollection of buying. If rich, highly strung clients cannot depend on their dressmakers to guard them from such humiliating mistakes, argued Paris editors last week; if the U. S. Treasury is actually spending millions of francs to corrupt poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only one means by which photostatic copies of his books could have been obtained-burglary, as bold as ever was committed. He filed formal complaint "against persons unknown...