Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody has ever found anything seriously wrong with Maestri's administration. Federal investigators have raked over his record without finding a trace of the graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that...
...Road has been a headache to the men who run it. Torrential rains, merciless bombing, malaria, red tape, British blockade, and technical ignorance have cursed the life of its officials. All these things Newsman Stowe airily brushed aside to come down like a Yunnanese landslide on one single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon; 4) use of the Road's limited capacity to haul luxuries, to be bootlegged...
...Buenos Aires Municipal Council has had some ugly scandals recently, but has turned its racketeering members over to the courts. Nevertheless, Señor Castillo used this graft as grounds for firing the whole Council...
...year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally blind in one eye, half-blind in the other, he had been ill for a year before he died...
...please all hands, and to graft Serenade tight to the U.S. box office, 20th Century has made it a ski-musical. For those who suffer from the brassy effects of Glenn Miller's hot and cold treatment of fair-to-middling new tunes (best: Chattanooga Choo Choo), there is plenty of slaloming at Idaho's Sun Valley. Performed by experts (and happily lampooned by liver-lipped Comic Milton Berle), the skiing sequences are a spectacular job of chiaroscuro photography...