Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Staley of the Supreme Court of New York ruled that the Anti-Saloon League is a political organization, and as such is required to make a complete statement of its financial resources as demanded by the Corrupt Practices Act. The League's assertion that it is " an organization for the discussion and advancement of political questions and principles without any connection with elections" is contradicted by the experience of politicians and office holders, who say that the League backs its candidates and defeats its enemies with extraordinary power and resolution...
...Mississippi, may contend at least that such a thing would not happen in the "open-hearted West". These objectors should hear the sad tale of Chaplain J. R. Calder of the Colorado House of Representatives, who was officially reprimanded for reporting to his Creator that: "Our courts are corrupt; God has been expelled from out churches;--our boys and girls are going to the dogs; our laboring men are going to work with empty dinner pails, while our farmers starve, and the middlemen wax fat on exorbitant prices . . ." Whether the Colorado Legislature considered it presumptuous to tell God what...
...strikes are a means to a good end--the betterment of the living conditions of the workingman--they fill, although crudely, a certain need, and are therefore in a measure instruments of good. That they are often justified is undeniable; that they sometimes serve selfish and corrupt ends is equally true...
...that there are certain things essentially evil which "no law can permit if it intends not to unlaw itself". Our Act says that the Commissioner of Public Safety "shall approve such films or parts thereof as are not obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, or such as tend to debase or corrupt morals or incite to crime." Can any law permit the things herein prohibited without unlawing itself? In an appeal from an Ohio case it was contended that such regulation infringed the principle of free, speech; but the Supreme Court of the United States said: "Are Moving Pictures within the principle...
...more the duty of decent citizens to try to make an improvement in the government of their country, and stupid because the slightest investigation will show any intelligent man that the widespread stories of American political dishonesty are almost always without foundation. In those cases where corruption and bribery have been clearly demonstrated, it has invariably been discovered that a group of the most successful business men of the community have combined to achieve the election or appointment of a corrupt man to a comparatively small position for their private profit. It is my firm conviction that except for certain...