Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked last week as though the committee had found more evidence of graft. An inspector in the Department of Supplies & Purchases was accused of having collected some $16,000 on faked bills. Inspectors in the fire marshal's office were charged with shaking down householders and businessmen, charging them $5 to $10 for permission to install extra fuel tanks...
...Order. "In some respects Argentina has changed little since the revolution. The same charges of graft and corruption that had been leveled at Castillo's government are now directed by the opposition toward the Perón administration. Electoral processes, while superficially normal, still give little chance to any but the party in power. But the hitherto neglected working classes have been forged into a political weapon that relieves the President of his sole reliance on the army as a means of staying in office. Higher wages have been showered on them (up 150% since 1943); massed descamisados...
Characterizing the Generalissimo as "another Hitler," General Fong Mu-sheng, a self-declared exile opposing the Nationalist policies, claimed that the Kuomintang has lost the loyalty of both soldiers and people as a result of whole-sale graft and treachery...
Public Record, As a prosecutor, he swept up shoals of bootleggers, con men, grifters, oil stock swindlers, bunco artists; jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries...
Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...