Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sir: ... As I read the Oct. 20 issue of TIME. I found it harder ... to swallow the lump in my throat ... I never thought I would live to see the day in America when the people's votes would be dictated by questionable labor leaders and a politician of...
(See Cover) I know of nobody who has found a way to prevent some people from being . . . dishonest . . . Last year there were something like 600 defalcations and embezzlements in the banks of this country. One out of every 300 bank officers was found to be crooked. And the record of...
He scoffed at corruption as a take issue. "We always have scandals and rascals, not in government alone, but also in business. Newspapers have said a lot about crooked internal revenue collectors, but little about dishonest bank clerks, it is a perennial problem in any administration."
"This unholy crew," charged Truman, are trying to make corruption the big campaign issue. "I know of nobody," said he, "who has found a way to prevent some people from being . . . dishonest. If anybody has a formula, I'm sure the American Bankers Association would pay a lot to...
"Hard work, imagination, initiative eventually pay off," he continned. "Science as one facet of such human activities can be intruded into the ancient technical arts, however complete, and given time and patience, improvements will result. But hardly ever the exact improvement that were expected. The hits in pure and applied...