Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kelly and its headline-making State's Attorney Tom Courtney, both Democrats, were pals. But for almost a decade of hate, Courtney has vainly tried to unseat Boss Kelly. Only last October, Courtney was "embarrassing" the Mayor with a lurid (though routine) grand jury investigation of police graft and corruption...
...certain percentage is graft and corruption, but a larger percentage is the result of the age-old struggle for economic power by men who love power. . . . Labor acquired its present extensive power as a result of a series of Supreme Court decisions.* These decisions fell like a bomb on the Department's policy of prosecuting indefensible labor restrictions...
...carrier's examination under another man's name. After he had thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme Court ordered him to pay back to the city treasury, at the rate of $500 a week, $42,629 which he had been found guilty of accepting as graft. But Curley, oozing martyrdom, turned both cases into political assets. Campaigning from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling how he perjured himself on the civil service exam in order to get a job for a destitute friend with a wife and four children. On the second occasion...
...capital's No. 1 gossip columnist, is not popular with his colleagues. He has always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before John L. Lewis went on the air for Wendell Willkie, the Merry-Go-Round solemnly reported, in quotations, a conversation in which Lewis...
...would give the government back to the politicians when it was cleaned up, that day seemed more remote than it had a month ago. To offset discontent over restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly and press, the Government rolled back rents, set certain price ceilings and exposed some graft in the deposed Castillo regime...