Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama...
...Ghulam Mohammed. Scared East Pakistan politicos turned to Prime Minister Ali, who comes from East Pakistan himself. In the name of democracy, the politicos persuaded Ali to ram a bill through the Constituent Assembly that would limit the Governor General's powers-e.g., the right to fire corrupt officials, the right to relieve Prime Ministers. Ghulam, who had appointed Ali in the first place, invited him to the palace for tea and tried to dissuade him. The tea, wisecracked one politico, proved to be "all lemon, no sugar." Ali would not budge. Ministers should be responsible, Ali believed...
Blockbuster No. 1. For his text Ives went all the way back to 1926, when Harriman was board chairman of a now-defunct steamship line. The company had obtained two Manhattan piers from Tammany Hall, Ives charged, by paying $250,000 to a corrupt Brooklyn judge. Harriman, testifying before a grand jury in 1930, had denied any knowledge of the transaction. "I can tell you," thundered Ives, "that you can't trust big business . . . particularly the business of the state, to a man who says he didn't know what happened to a quarter of a million dollars...
...Filho cannot succeed himself), and offered a 1,000,000-cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised Jânio in his victory speech: "I will protect and defend the working class and the poor. There will be one weight...
...half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money...