Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital cost more than $12,000,000 ($3,600,000 contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...
...Supply. Largely because of these suspicions they demanded-and got-a secret session of Parliament in December. Then late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating and by last week Great Britain had a Government scandal on its hands unequaled since Old Jim Thomas was ousted for giving out budget secrets (TIME...
...Orleans' States got a picture of a State University truck being used to haul building supplies to the half-built house of the wife of a Long machine-man - and the States's fighting editor, 64-year-old Jim Crown, had libel-proof evidence of the graft that every body knew was going on. As his disclosures were followed by a Federal investigation, the record stood: more than 200 parish and Federal indictments had been returned, three men had committed suicide, five had pleaded guilty, five more had been tried and convicted. The big shots-a former Governor...
...loneliest men in Louisiana last week was New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri. Gone were most of his henchmen, gone were most of his pals. Some 200 had been indicted by U. S. and Parish (County) Grand Juries, charged with sundry tricks of fraud, graft, income-tax evasion. Three had killed themselves. In U. S. courts five had pleaded guilty, five more had been tried and convicted. Among the head men of the Maestri machine (which once was Huey Long's), only Maestri himself and Huey's loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched...