Word: graftings
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Distinctly not the kind of man a voter would expect to find tied up with an administration noted for graft, extortion and embezzlement, Dan Poling promptly let it be-known that he planned to install some new piston rings to clean up that exhaust. He would call a meeting of civic leaders to reorganize Philadelphia Republicanism, he said, and start "a veritable crusade for honest, efficient government...
...second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew his candidacy three days before election Sunday, and out went Meireles...
...Gamblers, touts and gangsters operated nonchalantly for years in Florida. In the midst of graft and corruption, since his inauguration in January 1949, stood Governor Fuller Warren, 45, a handsome man with silvery hair and one of the loudest belly laughs in politics...
...only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
...ribbon-snipping, do-nothing mayor." Actually, Kennelly had tidied up the civil service and improved the police department a bit, but Chicago's crawling slums were as bad as ever, and crime was still a big problem. His own reputation for honesty was widely respected, but graft still bit deep into the city's pockets, and Kennelly did little to control the politics-ridden city council. "The 'take' in the city is just as great as it ever was," said one alderman, "but it has been decentralized...