Word: graftings
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...forgetting the great gambling expose. Murphy quickly reminded them of it. He held a conference with Brooklyn's District Attorney Miles McDonald, the man who had cracked the case by tapping the telephone wires of a perfumed Big Bookie named Harry Gross, and getting undeniable evidence of police graft and collusion...
Regular Democrats applauded the Murphy cleanup but did their best to depict Impellitteri as just an amateur statesman. Republican candidates applauded too, but happily seized on the whole scandal as wonderful campaign proof of Democratic graft and incompetence. According to grapevine report, other Republicans were plotting feverishly to get Ambassador O'Dwyer hauled home to answer a long list of embarrassing questions...
Handsome Police Captain John G. Flynn had been questioned by the Brooklyn grand jury, presumably about gambling and police graft in his precinct. He had neither been indicted nor recalled for further examination. But one day last week, 49-year-old Captain Flynn, a World War I Navy veteran, showed up at his 68th Precinct Station, retired to his quarters and shot himself through the head. In a note which he left, he denied that his death had anything to do with gambling or money matters; he chose suicide, he wrote, because of "a lot of headaches in this precinct...
...death was too much for Mayor William O'Dwyer, himself once a cop on a Brooklyn beat. As a result of a gambling-and-graft investigation by Brooklyn's District Attorney Miles McDonald, a lot of other policemen had been called before the grand jury. A lieutenant had been indicted for perjury about the source of $6,000 in his personal funds; a police inspector had had a mental collapse. As O'Dwyer saw it, Prosecutor McDonald, an ally of O'Dwyer's latest political enemy, Borough President John Cashmore, was carrying...
...Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation's most workable law against racial discrimination, had cleaned out graft in workingmen's compensation and renovated cobwebby mental and public health programs. When it came right down to brass tacks, most New York Republicans and many Democrats hated to see Tom Dewey...