Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both solutions are makeshift, and at least one of them is potentially corrupt. If the salaries of Congressmen and other public servants rose to a point commensurate with the importance of their work, essentially honest men like Nixon would need no angels...
Even in West Virginia's Kanawha County, where corrupt elections are no surprise, the primary last May was a standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...
Cambridge lost a city manager in its growth, a man who had refrormed a corrupt city. It gained a new manager, ready to develop the city into better financial and academic avenues...
Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas is a well-meaning liberal who has traveled from the Rockies to the Himalayas, stalking the Common Man with cliche and camera. In 1948 he reported that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was "tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements"; it had "lost the heart of the people," who had turned to Communism as their only hope. Last year he urged U.S. recognition of the Chinese Communists. Recognition, said Douglas, would wean the Chinese people and their masters away from Russian domination...
Cambridge lost a city manager in its growth, a man who had refrormed a corrupt city. It gained a new manager, ready to develop the city into better financial and academic avenues...