Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bishop of Stortford, who denounces Cocktail Time ("obscene, immoral, shocking, impure, corrupt, shameless, graceless and depraved") from the pulpit of Belgravia's St. Jude the Resilient. "All over the sacred edifice you could see eager men jotting the name down on their shirt cuffs...
...Nationalist retreat, and arrived in the midst of much highhanded Nationalist treatment of the local population. Formosans remember him as their best Chinese governor, a man who "made no promises, did not brag and was very strict." When Chiang made him Premier during the Korean war crisis, Chen fired corrupt officials, introduced the government's first modern budget...
...corporations operating overseas, advocated by former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to induce foreign investment. ¶ Support for big common markets-such as the proposed Latin American customs union-that will provide markets such as Puerto Rico has in the U.S. ¶ Official coolness to dictators, who are often corrupt and ultranationalistic. ¶ Greater tolerance for mixed economies in the Puerto Rican style, less insistence on making private enterprise a condition in granting loans. ¶ Any move toward freer trade...
...enemy is the gentile world, and its hostile camp is made up of all the hotels, clubs, schools and residential areas that Jews find "restricted." To Jewish George Hurst, raised on the lower East Side by pathologically fearful Aunt Tessie, the goyim are a barbarous yet crafty race who corrupt whatever they touch. His best friend, Danny Schorr, begins palling around with gentiles and soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren...
...excited. "Souphanouvong has been scolding the government these many years; now he 'has the power, and we will attack him, and it will serve him right," said one opponent. Others convinced themselves that with Souphanouvong's Communists administering American aid, more U.S. money would get past the corrupt politicians and into the hands of the people, who would then be properly grateful and friendly to the West...