Word: graftings
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...Milwaukee Journal, from Lima, Peru, where all newspapers are too timid to print stories about important scandals (such as graft and briberies), smirches and vices (such as horse betting and lotteries), please give my most sincere congratulations...
...charges against Bonelli were nothing new. Almost since the day he entered politics in 1927 as a candidate for the Los Angeles City Council (with the blessing of the Chandlers), Big Bill has been battling accusations of graft. A wealthy man, he has boasted that his $14,000-a-year state salary does not pay his federal income taxes. In 1940 he was tried and acquitted, in a directed verdict, on 23 counts of bribery, bribe solicitation and criminal conspiracy. In 1951 he blustered his way through a stormy session with the Senate's Kefauver crime investigating committee, forced...
Last week the Prime Minister himself, U.S.-educated Kwame Nkrumah, the facile Twi tribesman whom Gold Coasters revere as "The Man," was summoned before a tribunal investigating malfeasance and graft. Scandal swirled around members of his Cabinet, and Nkrumah himself was hurt by it. From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering...
Braimah accused his own secretary of salting away thousands of dollars in graft money. Braimah also told the judges that a contractor had offered him ?4,000 for a big road-building contract in the Northern Territories. The minister had agreed, but a fortnight later the contractor stormed into his office, complained bitterly: "A Greek has got the contract by paying the Prime Minister...
Mention of Nkrumah's name brought a gasp in the sweaty courtroom. "Did you believe this?" asked the solicitor general. "Yes," said Braimah, and accused his chief of buying a Cadillac and building a fine home on the proceeds of graft...