Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dabbled only briefly in politics. Once he served two terms as Democratic county prosecutor. Once he switched party lines, but was beaten as a Republican. It wasn't until he was appointed special prosecutor in 1943 for a graft-hunting grand jury that he attracted attention by convicting 41 small-time politicians and racketeers. Suddenly, three months ago, he was fired, ostensibly for excessive expenditures, but just as he was sighting in on bigger political game...
Then the howl set in-from churchmen, clubwomen, and from bookies and slot-machine operators, who naturally preferred the present system, under which they pay graft but get a larger take themselves. Mayor Morrison would have given the suckers a better break...
...wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...
Once Pinkerton agents swarmed Memphis, searched his office for evidence of graft. One night he was shot at. Once the courts ousted him from office. But he always stayed...
Like a black sheep son, the tangle of surplus property was back on the front pages again last week. The anti-administration New York Sun was telling horrendous and undocumented tales of graft and inefficiency (sample: an unnamed War Assets Administration salesman sold $120 worth of property, collected $15,000 for expenses). In Washington, five Congressional committees were trying to find out what was wrong...