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Fear of revolution was at least one reason why Cubans wanted to be sure about their money. Three days after the runs were stopped 600 university students demonstrated fiercely in Havana-as they often have-against President Gerardo Machado whom they call "Grafter!" They were dispersed by 150 police who seriously wounded six students. With Cuban congressional elections due next month President Machado thought this little riot sufficient excuse to do something big and drastic...
...Grafter!", shouted some one on the Right, while Socialist Leader Leon Blum was shouting from the Tribune. "Make your charge openly!," he bellowed, and everyone seemed to shout at once. Rising from his seat near the centre of the chamber M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister, everlasting Mayor of Lyons, finally stilled this particular tempest by assuring the Chamber that he (Radical-Socialist) had known M. Blum for 40 years and knew that the Socialist leader is not a "grafter...
...methods, however, were unique. He psychoanalyzed Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
...offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered that Grafter Calhoun had paid to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors $200,000 for the overhead trolley franchise...
...entirely satisfying was victory to Editor Older. The jury disagreed on Grafter Calhouri and his case was dismissed. Mayor Schmitz was never brought to trial. Only Abraham Ruef was convicted, sent to San Quentin for 14 years. Peculiarly enough, the sentence of Ruef was more sorrowful to Editor Older than his failure to convict the others. Always an intense reader, he became at about this time a Tolstoyan humanist. He started writing fiercely uplifting editorials asking for-and obtaining-Ruef's parole. Explaining it, he says...