Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicion lingers, however, that if the novel is condemned for scientific leanings rather than for its ability to corrupt the morals of its readers, its is only because the movies and the flourishing yellow journalism of today have so unmistakably gained a superiority in the latter field. The good old era has passed when a specimen of the depraved younger generation was always painted with a box of chocolates and an exciting French novel. At any rate, it is quite evident that the present younger generation is far too impatient to seek in the endless pages of a novel those...
...government machinery thus to increase the profits of a few business men explains why the Republicans spent $8,100,000 in the 1920 campaign, compared with Democratic expenditures of $2,237,000. It explains why they refused to unseat Senator Newbury who clearly violated the Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...
...These brazen agents of corrupt interests are doing nothing to hold the Government to the purpose of its origin. They are doing nothing to keep alive the ideals and institutions of free constitutional government. They are trying to debauch and debase every Senator and every public man who refuses to turn his back upon his country to surrender his convictions and obey the behests of selfish, morbid, contemptible and corrupt dollar aristocracy...
...fail in overthrowing the corrupt Pashitch regime nothing can prevent an early outbreak of revolution in Macedonia and Montenegro. As a last resort we shall appeal to the League of Nations. Croatia, with Dalmatia and Slovenia, formerly Hungarian, have a more western civilization than the rest of Yugoslavia and enjoyed a greater 'degree of autonomy under Hungarian than Yugoslav sovereignty. Fiume actually is in Crotia...
Articles were published some weeks ago in the Socialist newspaper of Paris, L'Humanite, showing the corrupt relations between many French journals and the Russian Government. The documents were drawn from the achives of the Russian Foreign Office. They consisted largely of reports made by the Russian Financial Agent in Paris. He had been constituted a sort of paymaster of the forces in connection with the French Press. The whole makes up a shocking story of bribery or blackmall resorted to at the time of the flotation of successive Russian loans on the French market...