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Died. Fremont Older, 78, crusading editor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; of heart disease while driving his automobile; near Stockton, Calif. Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support...
That many a Georgian has wangled a soft job out of "neighbor Stalin" all Russia knows. Therefore disclosures that the record grafter of the of the entire Soviet Union has just been caught in Georgia were hailed with suppressed excitement last week. In Stalin's good graces, the No. 1 Grafter, whose name was not revealed, was a Communist Party member and director of a Georgian State vineyard. In four years he embezzled 500,000 rubles, lived in the luxury of an Asiatic Prince, and according to the Moscow press "actually called himself the 'Heir of the Mingrelian Princes...
Such facts only reach the Soviet public with a moral attached. Pravda, in reporting the Georgian grafter's arrest last week, urged all Bolsheviks to heed a recent warning by Dictator Stalin that "no Communist must think because of his position that he is above the law." To emphasize that this time Stalin means business, Pravda carried the news that "no mercy will be shown to embezzlers of the people's property, no matter who they...
...Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their...
...actually mixed in politics. It is foolish to think of any student group bucking corruption or in any other way making a dent in the political set-up as it exits today. But where the student can find his way behind the scenes, where he can fight some political grafter, where he can make his mark felt, he ought to participate to some degree, NOT because he is entering politics or public life or in any other way attempting to show the world that he exits, but because any experience gleaned by participation in politics while he is still...