Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the mahogany doors, one morning last week, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s five-member Ethical Practices Committee, chaired by greying Machinists' President Al Hayes, waited impatiently to hear what the hour-late Teamster chieftains had to say about charges that their union is dominated by "corrupt influences." Dave and Jimmy said plenty-but told very little. Reading off a wordy prepared statement, Beck said blandly that, after all, the "allegations" against him and Jimmy and other Teamster officials were not "of such magnitude as to support a belief that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as an entity...
Comedy or Truth? Gogol was a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the "mysterious dwarf." His "spoilt and corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother to the point of forging foreign stamps to make her believe he was living abroad. He was morbidly dependent on his friends' company. "Forget your wretched teeth." he wrote to a friend who wanted to go to see a dentist. "The soul is better than teeth...
Ready Evidence. By the spring of 1949, Beria and Malenkov had the doctored evidence ready. Some of Zhdanov's lieutenants were charged with engaging in corrupt practices, others were accused of pursuing "their own economic policies." One after another, the Zhdanovites disappeared. Virtually the entire Leningrad party apparat led by Peter Popkov, Zhdanov's successor as city secretary, was silently liquidated. In Moscow the purge carried away a clutch of notables, including the youngest member of the Politburo, State Planning Boss Nikolai Voznesensky. Dozens were executed...
...Supreme Court last week dealt with a familiar constitutional issue: the Fifth Amendment. Before the court was the case of New York City Attorney Max Halperin, convicted in 1955 of tax-fixing conspiracy* and attempting to corrupt witnesses before a grand jury. Before his indictment Halperin had declined, under the Fifth, to testify against himself before a grand jury. Because the trial judge permitted this use of the Fifth to be cited against him at his trial, the Supreme Court, on a relatively clear point of law, ordered a new trial...
...fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last week, and three Paris...