Word: grafter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...
...Budapest the Hungarian Prime Minister and virtual dictator, Count Stephen Bethlen, was greeted when he entered the chamber last week by Opposition shouts of "grafter! . . . herder! . . . PIG!! . . . resign or we'll bring guns and use Skupshtina methods here...
...apartment house and was arrested again. His employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess I'll have to rest for a spell," he whispered, "but . . . it's not the eggs and vegetables...
...Willis-for-President rally on the evening of March 7, where Hardin, Allen, Hancock, Logan, Putnam, Anglaize and many other fine counties in the state will be represented and do some "booming" for Willis, something which seems to hurt TIME terribly. There is not a thug, saloon parasite, grafter, bootlegger, and not a "big wet" in the state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken, the thousands of women voters in Ohio who know that Willis has fought for their homes and firesides against...
...first act of Coolidge was to approve the policies of the Harding Administration. . . . Coolidge continued at the head of the Department of Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive as a Boston oyster stranded on the beach in the month of August. . . . "Coolidge to this day retains Andrew W. Mellon as Secretary of Treasury. When Mellon was appointed, the great financial interests...