Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graft in Ecuador...
Then there is moral deterioration-graft, corruption, profiteering, black market. These things develop in any country in war, and especially in defeat. But there are several things to say about the graft in China. First, while it is bad, it is not nearly as bad as I expected to find, considering the circumstances. Second, there has always been in China the "squeeze" system, which we consider graft, but they do not. Any Chinese who handles a transaction for you takes 10%. If he takes 20%, he is dishonest; but, if he does not take 10%, he is not considered honest...
Said a News editorial: "Jimmy was Mayor 1926-1932; and those were years when New York was a pleasant place to live in. It was a wide-open town, in defiance of the prohibitionists. There may have been some graft changing hands- 'honest graft,' as it was called-but not many people cared. What did matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame...
...forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph-record firm. Said...
...Products of Contentment. Philadelphia's drinking water is notoriously rank, its city hall a $26,000,000 monument to graft and bad taste. But underneath the smugness of Philadelphia life is a quality of repose" that Struthers Burt spends most of his 396 pages trying to define. Much of this feeling comes from the old Philadelphia houses, three stories in front, with a two-story ell leading back to the alley, spacious, light and comfortable dwellings whose warm rooms were made for good dinners and good conversation...