Word: grafter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boyle was not alone; many another reader had written to the newspapers to complain about Detective Dick Tracy's suspiciously high standard of living. Their question: Has the nation's favorite funny-page detective been a grafter all these years? The uproar was so loud that it reached the ears of Tracy's strip father, Cartoonist Chester Gould. He decided to have Pat Patton, the strip's police chief and Tracy's boss, call Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin...
...name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
...causes. He banged away at the corrupt school system, at excessive transit fares, at the enormous city budget. He published an audit of his city salary showing that he netted only $16.72 for the year after paying the expenses of office. The boys resented the implication that only a grafter could make ends meet...