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Just what can be done to the offending companies is uncertain because the legal situation is murky. U.S. law draws a sharp distinction between domestic and foreign political use of corporate money. Within the U.S., donations to politicians from a corporate treasury are clear-cut crimes???even though more than a dozen companies have confessed to engaging in such activities. But even outright bribery of foreign officials does not violate any U.S. law. It may break the laws of the countries where the bribes are passed, but some of those countries are lax in enforcing their own legal codes. Concealment...
...Federal Government can probably do less about crime than it is often assumed. But with relatively modest expenditures?or no expenditures at all?the Government can help merely by re-examining the problems. Almost all authorities on crime agree, for example, that many social infractions now classed as crimes???drunkenness, drug addiction and homosexual relations between consenting adults?are not matters for the police or the criminal law. The problems are real enough, but should be dealt with in other ways, freeing police for more crucial tasks...
Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes???to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room...
...Ambassador to the U. S., Captain Boy-Ed caused such publications as the well poised Outlook to print the following denunciation of his activities: "Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen . . . have been the inspiration if not the agency of the Teutonic plots and conspiracies . . . of all the hideous crimes???arson, dynamiting, murder?committed in this country in a shameless and cowardly attempt to stop our supplies from going to the Allies...
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