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...They included booksellers, labor leaders, a movie producer and eight well-known Manila newspapermen. Two biggest fish among the arrested newsmen: Jose Lan-sang, executive editor of Manila's Philippines Herald, and the Manila Times's star police reporter, Mucario Vincencio, who has written several articles exposing graft...
...Madeleine. The bridge was the Pont Duplessis. Ever since 1946, when Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis awarded the $3,000,000 bridge contract without any public call for bids, it had been a political issue in the province. Duplessis' opponents said it was built with graft, loudly called attention to the cracks in its concrete. Duplessis confidently answered that it was as "strong and straight" as his Union Rationale government...
After serving 35 months, former Major General Bennett E. Meyers, cashiered from the Army and sentenced to 20 months to five years for wartime contract graft, walked out of the federal reformatory at Lorton, Va. to face another charge. For 1941 he reported a net income of $3,808.70, but the Government figured it was nearer...
...Majlis, Iran's Parliament, represents cliques of landlords and courtiers, competing for patronage and graft. To satisfy their appetite for jobs, Iran has a swollen civil service of 250,000, about three times as many as it needs. The Majlis members are too afraid of the people to risk reforms, too afraid of the national administration to give it the power it needs. The Majlis cannot even bring itself to vote an annual budget; it passes each month a bill appropriating a twelfth of the budget. Obviously, even efficient civil servants have no scope to plan and operate...
...argued in the White Paper that, short of a "colossal commitment of our armies," there was nothing the U.S. could have done to save China, that the destiny of that massive, torn country was out of U.S. hands. Certainly Chiang's government, with its one-party rule, its graft and its unpopularity, had a great deal to do with its own collapse; Mao Tse-tung's toughness and shrewdness had much to do with the Communists' triumph. But the pertinent fact for Americans was that their own State Department, by its acts and by its failures...