Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brannan's Vigilantes brought a violent kind of order out of the violent chaos. San Franciscans settled down to ordinary, corrupt city politics and a less homicidal good time. Ladies like "Cowboy Maggie" Kelly on the Barbary Coast still provided entertainment in the old style. But '49ers learned to waltz at Lawyer Hall McAllister's wife's cotillions...
...experience, even conservative bankers and businessmen, if not themselves involved in the official rape of the people, will bitterly admit that the Communists are more efficient and less corrupt, that they take less from the rice bowl of the common...
...prewar France, it was said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...strong, independent China) were brighter last week than at any time since liberation. Yet the news from China was bad-appallingly bad. China was hurtling into economic disaster and political anarchy. Its causes: 1) Communist rebellion; 2) failure of the U.S. to send enough prompt aid; 3) the corrupt inefficiency of the National Government. Last week TIME Correspondent William Gray took a long, hard look at China. His report...
...Lincoln Steffens gave me some idea of what to expect of Boston when he told me that the Hub City is the most corrupt community in the country, but I didn't quite expect this. Either Boston papers reflect a degraded level of civic life or they are a direct cause...