Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston newspaperman from way back, Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Foundation, released a cool headed analysis last week of Boston's politics its prejudices and its traditions--upon a city whose newspapers were seething with tales of bare-faced bribery and graft. When James S. Coffee stood up before a license hearing in the Council and affirmed, "Sure I'll take a buck," the probe was on. Before it was over, citizens knew that Coffee would take three thousand bucks and that he was not alone. Peculiar to Boston, Lyons points out in Vanguard Press' anthology, "Our Fair...
...Graft and patronage have been a part of Boston since before the time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...cool, white Malacanan palace, Philippine President Manuel Roxas found that story no joke. Last week, he had been forced to make an extraordinary request of his Congress for a special court to deal exclusively with the graft of public officials...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...soon decided, was to control or ruin other businesses. After a few years he exchanged one hopelessness for another and took service in the army in Morocco, building a road into the hostile territory of Abd-el-Krim. From top officers down, the army was as sick with graft as many of its members were with malaria and syphilis...