Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign blasting Texas as "the most corrupt state in the nation," Publisher Allen charged that corruption flourished in Fort Worth under a syndicate headed by a Dallas state law enforcement officer (whom he did not name). The editorial said that an estimated 1,500 pinball machines in Fort Worth were operating without paying the $250 annual state tax, but did kick back $10 a week to the syndicate. It also charged that an unidentified politician had said "he only takes his cut because he wants to be in the race for lieutenant governor...
Gussner went on to attack the current foreign policy. "Russia has shifted its emphasis in the Cold War to a more peaceful path," he said, "Why shouldn't we? We are wrong to support such corrupt colonialism as England's. Rather we should look toward freedom for all." Gussner went on to emphasize that non-violence was the only way to solve the world's problems...
...dollars. Most likely to conduct the hearings: Tennessee's Democrat Albert Gore, chairman of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. Last week Gore's three-member subcommittee voted itself a broad franchise calling for a "study of contributions to election campaigns in federal elections and such evidence of corrupt practices as may be revealed." High on Gore's agenda are investigations of lobbying by gas and oil men, by the steel and automobile industries and by labor unions...
...Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong, healthy and decisive, while the democracies are decrepit, dilatory. corrupt and weak. In one sense, the totalitarians are young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same as it was in the Middle Ages. Starvation, slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young...
...Hand. His closest political pal was one William J. Balmer, a Republican power in Chicago since the second corrupt reign (1927-31) of "Big Bill" Thompson. An old hand at doing business with GSA (the Justice Department is suing him for $400,000 on the ground that he used fraudulent means to buy surplus Government property), Balmer sponsored Mansure for the GSA job, and then began to advise him frequently on important contracts. At just the right time Balmer registered as an insurance broker and obtained, through Mansure's GSA, a whopping insurance contract at the U.S. Government...