Word: grafter
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...presence of his father, but Mihai I is just a simple royal youth who likes to tinker with motorboats, cars and radio sets. Lulu Malaxa, daughter of Rumania's richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty...
...American Legion has given residents of Greater Boston just cause for indignation in the past few years, but in the ludicrous handling of the last rites for Louis Gaeta it has surpassed itself. Yesterday the Legion draped with an American flag the coffin of a confirmed racketeer, gambler, political grafter, and all-round public enemy...
...From the grafter of an organization to the highest official of a nation...
Even that notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with...
...what will happen when a Harding returns, or when Curley becomes President? Then a grafter will be Commissioner, or a Socialist, and the extra power given to the Commission will be used against honest business men, against any one who dares fight the dirty politician in charge...