Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switch at Carbide & Carbon was a minor triumph for the C.I.O. As a last-minute campaign tactic it had accused the A.F.L. of scheming to put Oak Ridge workers into the corrupt and autocratic Hod Carriers Union. An A.F.L. suit for criminal libel was too late to stop the damage. Summed up Southern A.F.L. Representative George Googe: "Chaos for another year...
...probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
...corrupt political situation in the Northeast Indian province of Bengal is an important figure in the famine picture. The rivalry among government officials makes a lack of organization the greatest cause of improper food handling. As a result, starvation has already set in. In Southern India, though the Provincial Governess have kept a strict rationing of food, thousands upon thousands of people have only about 960 calories in their daily diet. In some districts, the dearth of rice is even greater...
Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
...were unfit for facts. After 20 years of Salazar, the dean of Europe's dictators, Portugal was a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people. Even Salazar, that model of rectitude, showed signs of succumbing to a law of politics discovered by Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts ab solutely...