Word: graftings
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...Marseille stood for everything which Hitler's New Order hated," said the French girl. "Its people were dirty, happy individualists who lived the way they liked to live and fought all attempts at change. Marseille was filthy, ancient, rotten with graft, but somehow it made you happy. The pastis was good and its fragrance of aniseed went to your head. The sun burned down as you walked along and watched the men playing at bowls in the streets...
...Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position to answer a question of that sort...
There were never more than eight Democrats in the chamber as Styles Bridges reeled off his charges of alleged graft in Ed Flynn's political past...
...must come to the realization that higher salaries must be paid to city officials so that: (1) men with greater ability and higher moral integrity will be attracted to politics, and (2) the men in office will not find the need to succumb to the ever-present temptation of graft, and (3) there will be enough able men with honest and responsible inclinations in government positions so that lack of ability or dishonesty will not be tolerated either by the officials or the public...
...American public must forget the fallacious idea that dishonesty and graft must inevitably go hand in hand with municipal government. But, to have efficient and honest government the officials must be paid in accordance with their abilities, and the people must prepare to pay them. Otherwise, they will continue to pay as did the 494 victims of the Grove fire. Alexander L. Jackson...