Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who called the report "a disgraceful example of the use of sensationalism in an attempt to smear the trade-union movement." Like Pipe Fitter McNamara, Plumber Meany pointed out that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has kicked out the Teamsters and a couple of other corrupt unions. Neither mentioned that organized labor allowed its ugly situation to grow uglier for years-until the McClellan committee came along...
Meeting the press, Ydigoras showed confidence and moderation. "I believe in free unions," he said, "but many of our unions were infiltrated by Communists -especially the boards of directors. I believe there should be periodic elections to ensure against continued rule by corrupt men." As for Communism itself, he said, "Guatemala [under Red-dyed President Jacobo Arbenz] was like a small girl who caught smallpox. After the disease was over the scars remained. Now the scars are beginning to disappear...
...Harvard Young Republican Club elections took a colorful turn last night as David F. Peterson '59 announced he would re-enter the race for president of the club. Peterson accused his opponent Alec B. Dawson '59, of corrupt vote-get-ting methods...
...London and married a childhood playmate named Edith Kermit Carow. He settled down in Washington for six years (1889-95) as Civil Service Commissioner (under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland), then put in two years as police board chairman of New York City (1895-97), booting out corrupt cops, promoting the worthy and rewarding the brave, making headlines by prowling the slums with his reform-minded friend Jacob (How the Other Half Lives') Riis. Wrote T.R.: "I am dealing with the most important, and yet most elementary, problems of our municipal life . . . There is nothing of the purple...
Your cover picture of Menderes does not show the blood of thousands of Greek Orthodox children and women (Istanbul massacre, Sept. 6, 1955). John Foster Dulles' flirtation with the corrupt country of Turkey is one of the greatest shames of today...