Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sideline, became a successful speaker at Rotary Club luncheons. While on Rotary's wheel, Herold Christian Hunt swung over to a better job as superintendent of the rundown schools of Kalamazoo. After three years of cleaning up Kalamazoo, he was well established as an able mender of corrupt school systems. He rehabilitated the schools of New Rochelle, N.Y., Kansas City, Mo. and Chicago. After six years of rebuilding Chicago's moldering. politics-ridden schools, he abruptly abandoned his chosen field and accepted appointment (and a $15,000 salary cut) to Harvard's Graduate School of Education (TIME...
...Democrats at French Lick read with approval the remarks of Fellow Democrat Jack Kroll, director of the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Speaking at Milwaukee, Kroll cried that President Eisenhower was running "the most corrupt Administration this country has had since the Harding regime . . . [It is] the Big Mink Administration . . ." While all this is going on, said Jack Kroll, the newspapers "continue to tell us how popular Ike is, what his golf score is and where he's vacationing this week...
...Majesty's G.G. In Pakistan, which has no constitution, real power resides in the hands of a little clique of soldier-administrators and Moslem League politicians. The able among them have created a strong army and a strong foreign policy on the side of the West; but the corrupt among them have badly discredited the regime at home...
...serious" novelists, i.e., Aging Man Returns to Home Town in Search of His Youth. On top of that, he manages to combine outstandingly successful plots from both sides of the Atlantic, i.e., the British whodunit's Murder Stalks a Village and the American thriller's Sleuth Outwits Corrupt Local Politicians...
Circulation v. Implication. Magazines that have accepted the ads, said Father Graf, "will corrupt the minds of our youth." He called the puzzles "gyp lotteries," reminded the A.C.U. that the House of Bishops opposes bingo and other gambling. Furthermore, he implied, the whole business was unsound: "If less than $315,000 is grossed," he said, "then the A.C.U. will receive not one cent. How in conscience can a church organization take such a gamble with its reputation and its contributors' money...