Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those designed to enforce systems of graft and extortion...
...living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in 1937, the Settlement has been an island in a sea of intrigue and guerrilla warfare. Round it have prowled gunmen, tough, graft-hungry Japanese soldiers, the gangster bravos and police of the puppet Nanking Government...
...grand-jury investigation of police graft in 1937 showed what the Old Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds...
...week for New Jersey bosses, Atlantic County's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Lewis Johnson took it on the double chin. Long a shameless devourer of graft, showgirls & champagne, Boss Johnson stood before a Federal bar, smiled blandly when a jury foreman said: "Not Guilty." Second later, Nucky's tough face turned an unbecoming yellow at: "Guilty!" and "Guilty!" He had been convicted of cheating the Government out of taxes on $124,800 in '36 and '37. He had escaped conviction on a charge of doing the same thing in '35. Useful witnesses: operators...
...word is no good. He believes that the President made a complete bust of his domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked the domestic capitalistic system...