Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have fulfilled his promise to give up a high level campaign. Instead we have Truman running against Jay Gould and other present-day bogey-men. I hope that, if elected, Stevenson will not feel indebted to the man whose administration will probably go down as one of four most corrupt. His record so far in resisting pressures, contrary to his words, does not speak well for him. W. A. Newcomb...
...wiped out by the magic of FDR. This is at least a gross oversimplification. He has accused the Republicans of advocating military weakness; yet there has been no more persistent advocate of a realistic arms program than Henry Cabot Lodge, to whom Ike owes his nominations. Stevenson claims that corruption in government is primarily the fault of the voters. Such specious reasoning is not forthrightness. His argument will be true only if the voters endorse the corrupt administration at the polls...
...Senator Taft and corrupt methods by which he attempted to sew up Southern delegations...
...many years, including several in postwar China until the Bamboo Curtain grew too rigid . . . [But] can you find me anyone who knew anything about China from the inside or outside who did not report in 1948 that "Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was 'tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements'; it had 'lost the heart of the people,' who had turned to Communism as their only hope?" In fact, those are very mild descriptions of the situation, and would be accepted by businessmen, military officers, missionaries and diplomats...
...Zeezee" & "Safsaf." The Wafd was once the greatest political force in Egypt with a wide following among the people, to whom it promised independence from Britain and a better life. But over the years it grew deeply corrupt. Nahas himself was once a respected leader. The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil. He was a devoted servant of the people, and he lived simply even after he became Premier. Then in 1936 he took as his wife the lovely, ambitious daughter of a landowner. Her name was Zeinab, but Nahas called her "Zeezee." She called...