Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ganging of the students' pocket-books is disgraceful. Just because the HAA has a good thing in the Yale game, that is no reason why they should take advantage of student loyalty. Let them make up their deficit some other way. Who wants to deal with such a morally corrupt outfit? Let Mr. Lunden beware of arrogance in these days of plenty: next year he may want to sell tickets for the Harvard Ohio University game. Mark Jacob...
...public had seldom been so enthusiastically belabored by the public-spirited and the civic-minded. Except in Minnesota, which bars transportation of voters as a corrupt practice, there was hardly a city in which a voter could not get a lift to the polls just by picking up < his telephone. In some towns he could get a free taxi ride, and in Rochester, N.Y. an ambulance was his for the asking, even if he wasn't sick. Orange City, Iowa blew its fire siren every hour on the hour to remind the apathetic that...
...Truman had carried it by a mere 7,000 in 1948; Adlai Stevenson swept it by 160,000. There were several reasons for this: the heavily Democratic Jewish and Negro vote held firm; there were few defections from the Irish Democratic vote. More important, Philadelphians had thrown out their corrupt and senile city-Republican machine in 1951, and for the first time, the controlled river wards were in the hands of Democrats...
...Eisenhower's overwhelming lead, said, "At this time I can say with full confidence that we have never had it so good. I am tremendously gratified to see that the American people have finally seen through the Democratic propaganda and have decided that there must be an end to corrupt and inefficient government by deficit and patronage...
...denies that the corrupt practices which seeped into Washington during the last years of President Roosevelt's life were ignored by Truman until public exposure embarrassed him. But this does not mean the Government is the reeking "top to bottom mess" Eisenhower says it is. Six-tenths of one percent of Government employees have been accused of or indicted for malpractice, leaving the Administration only slightly more sullied than Ivory soap. Bue even if .00001 of the three million Government employees were corrupt, newspapers could still have a scandal a day for a year. And since scandals always rate front...