Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the third point made by Benton in a four-part discussion of ways to remedy present corrupt practices in politics and government. This commission, Benton said, would issue reports every two years after an election, acting as "a kind of referee to report on low blows delivered during the heat of campaigns...
Since then, the Gran Ejido has been sacrosanct in Mexican politics. No public official dared to say that it was an abysmal failure. Profits from the henequen were raked in by corrupt bureaucrats, while henequen growers and their families lived on barely $1 a week. Mexico's total production, despite a $1.900,000 annual subsidy started by President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in 1953 (TIME, April 13, 1953), dropped steadily. Last year it hit a low of 450,000 bales, compared with the World War I high of 1,000,000 bales...
...Center of the Albigenses, null century heretics who revolted against the relaxed morals and corrupt practices of the church, adopted a strict, otherworldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church...
With McCoocy's soul up for option, the play must have its bidders: St. Michael, who make a brief but irreproachable entrance in the third act as a bright center-stage light; and Baron Nicholas de Balbus, the devil's advocate who attempts to corrupt the priest and his household. The ensuing battle between darkness and light is garnished with much theatrical hokum as lights go on, clocks stop, and furniture takes to the air. But despite the commotion, the final triumph of Good is a melodramatic inevitability...
...abuse, and we are paying a high price for our generosity in accepting generosity . . . We have accepted scholarships that cost us more to administer than we received in tuition income; we have accepted buildings that drained away . . . our precious free money ... These [restricted] gifts can break us or corrupt us or both...