Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powder, the vain old man has watched his mane resume its whiteness, his complexion its Indian bronze. Guards passing his tidy cell peer in to see their model prisoner seated on an army cot, thumbing through his meager four-volume library as he awaits trial on charges of "colossal graft...
...make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of prostitution and numbers-game headquarters. And it flatly charged that these rackets were operating with the connivance of the Miami police, who were paid off with "ice money," i.e., graft...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...
Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director...
...city with a first-class medical center and maternity hospital. Left to Mayor Kenny also was a city with one of the highest tax rates in the nation, rigged assessments, discouraged businesses, factories deserted by fleeing industry, a city turned into a huge patchwork of slums by political graft. Left to historians was the problem of discovering, if they could, the exact details of how Frank Hague, on a salary never bigger than the mayor's $8,500 a year, became several times a millionaire. Left to Frank Hague were his declining years-to spend in his suite...