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...remember it, Boyle's law is: "The volume of a given mass of gas at constant temperature varies inversely as the pressure." Perhaps, in politics, your Boyle's law should read: "The volume of political graft varies directly with the pressure of press criticism which is brought to bear upon...
...Manhattan, for his 92nd birthday, Philosopher John Dewey took a philosophic attitude toward Government morals. Said he: "Graft has always been pretty closely connected with political activities. But agencies of publicity are probably more powerful now in checking corruption in Government than in previous periods . . . Exposure is more prompt and more specific than in the past...
...hopeful signs in Turkey, none is more compelling than the political situation. There's less graft, more honest and devoted officials in Turkey than any place in the Middle East...
...important officials of the federal Government and political leaders of both parties be required to make public their annual incomes from all sources. His reason: "Attempts have been made, through implication and innuendo and by exaggeration and distortion of facts, in a few cases, to create the impression that graft and corruption are running rampant in the whole Government...
Poor Johnson, he is engagingly blithe and brave, but just too big for his britches. He is not even a good clerk. Almost daily, his debts and love of swagger drive him to shaky deeds. He takes graft and kickbacks from payrolls, sells secret government information to the natives. When he is fired from his government job, he gets another in the town store. He is soon fired again, and when he sneaks back to dip into the till, his ex-boss traps him. In the scuffle, the storekeeper is killed and Johnson is sentenced to hang. Bamu deserts...