Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Palestine has 27 cinema houses, 20 owned and patronized exclusively by Jews. One of the Jewish ones at Tel Aviv is installing sound equipment. Jews are boycotting it for fear that film English will corrupt their children's Hebrew...
...September primary. His opponent would be Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "stalwart'' (regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination and election...
...activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, April 7). Last week Representative Tinkham appeared before the committee, generalized about the "$67,565,312.72" the Anti-Saloon League had spent, vaguely deplored the failure of politico-religious campaigners to reveal their expenditures under the Corrupt Practice...
...because he has betrayed a public trust, than the bribe-giver, who is under no specific oath of honesty. The net result of last week's trial was to make the $100,000 Doheny gave Fall a legitimate loan, but the $100,000 Fall took from Doheny a corrupt bribe...
...Journal, in probing corrupt minutia in the city's government found...