Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played Hercules to Detroit's Augean stables was nearly ready to lay down his muckrake this week. In three years he had cleaned up more filth than any other municipal investigator in U.S. history, had mopped up $1,000,000 worth of graft, had swept out gambling and vice rackets which took in $20,000,000 a year, had pitchforked nearly a dozen city officials and scores of corrupt policemen. Now the middeny stables were sweet-smelling again. The name of this Hercules: Homer Ferguson...
Honest Judge Ferguson found Detroit's graft-ridden officialdom as helpful as a pair of handcuffs. County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea insisted that the smell in the police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
...topic is more susceptible to the satirical pen than that of politicians and petty graft. Actual proof of this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting...
...general was the practice, said Mr. Amen, that such graft was considered "clean money" by policemen who would never take "dirty money"-i.e., bribes from such lowlifes as murderers and crooks...
...ranks the racketeering, profiteering, and petty tyranny which plague organized labor under the present setup would be more of a drawback than a help to the nation. Although labor is on the road to democracy, it is at that stage in the road which is rife with crookedness and graft, phenomena which appear in union life as thugs and "goons," irresponsibility and dictatorship...