Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rasped Chairman Hatton Sumners of the Judiciary Committee arguing for impeachment: "The last case of this kind we took to the Senate [the Louderback impeachment] resulted in the greatest farce ever presented. At one time only three Senators were present, and for ten days we presented evidence to what was...
For anyone who needed convincing that these plutocrats were not only unpleasant to look at and think about, but downright crooked as well, their maneuvers and squirmings under the Senate's investigation should be sufficient proof. Mr. Black, by his own admission, is only looking for facts, secrets, and publicity...
In 1922 the foremost scoffer at the gene theory of heredity, England's formidable, bushy-browed Biologist William Bateson, went to the Columbia University laboratories of Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there...
All this, the defendants submitted, inspired them with "confidence" in Sacha Stavisky, alias Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that...
Toronto policemen have broken into and robbed the wholesale warehouse of Aziz & Son more than 50 times in the past ten years. Conniving with the police, one member of the firm crooked its books to conceal many of the thefts. As Canadian Justice got busy last week, the falsifier was...