Word: graftings
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Another storekeeper in a slum neighborhood differs on this last point. "I don't think much of McNamara. He's always hung around politics looking for graft. I don't like the CCA either. Let people use their own ideas. Beat PR and you beat CCA too. I think we should bring back the old kind of government. I'd like to so people in there who don't take orders from a group...
...kind of revolution, bent on wiping out graft and corruption, was introduced into Mexico with the regime of its austere new President...
...government ever since. He was deputy city attorney for Oakland in 1919-20, deputy district attorney for Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda) in 1920-25, district attorney in 1925-39. A relentless prosecutor, he convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft, convicted Alameda's mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick...
...major was Gamal Abdel Nasser, now the brains and driving force behind Egypt's ruling revolutionary government. Last week, nervous and shaking, grey-haired Ibrahim Abdel Hady stood before the extraordinary Revolutionary Tribunal charged with six crimes: conspiring with a foreign power against the regime, treason, corruption, graft, terrorism, complicity in murder. His was the first trial under the new tribunal...
...peace. He exposed Communist infiltration in the foreign office, forced the government to start to clean house. A fierce opponent of Brazil's national security law, making it an offense to attack "agents of public order," Lacerda violated the law by printing Page One stories accusing police of graft. He was carted off to jail, said boldly: "I feel it is a great honor to be accused of violating the security law, which is a copy of a Fascist law decreed in Italy by Mussolini." Four days later the Senate changed...