Word: crookedness
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Moment of Greatness. In 1936, he courageously sacked his own supporter, crooked Minister of War George ("The Thunderbolt") Kondylis, declared an amnesty for anti-royalists, and instituted a liberal Cabinet. For a while George was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion. But the spell...
In his trophy-littered office in the hills above Managua, jowly little Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, since 1937 Dictator-President of Nicaragua, smiled a crooked smile. "I understand the opposition is boasting of its Red Cross arrangements for election day and after. If they plan to test me, I advise them...
Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands...
-Today, as a Hearst drawing card and a radio chatterer on the side, he earns $12,000 a year. He has traveled 350,000 miles to cover sports events. He has bombarded crooked sports promoters with thousands of yards of angry copy. His staffers resent the way he picks their...
Died. Lewis J. Valentine. 64, New York City's hard-hitting former Police Commissioner (1934-45), who rose from cop-on-the-beat to head the nation's largest city police force, gave New York's slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white slavers, crooked politicos some of...