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...fair (the original argument was that all art shown would be a functional part of the exhibits), President Whalen gracefully gave in, arranged a substantial gallery. There have been complaints of discrimination against Negroes, Civil Service men and veterans. And there have been the customary charges of graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...administration of Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor, George Howard Earle III, went down to defeat last November in a thick smoke of graft charges which hung like a pall over the election. Last week the grand jury of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), which had been peering into the smoke for three months, turned in a fire alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Indictments | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...deduct National Guard fees, graft money, expenses of lobbying for legalized horse racing, contributions to birth-control or anti-saloon leagues; nor can you deduct money spent in preparation of your income tax return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugaboos Laid | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability or illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Bones for Old | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...countryside back of coastal towns from Stratford (near Bridgeport) to the New York line. Another wonder of the East, but for the omission of a compulsory clause in a recent Connecticut law, would have been the water closets in all Connecticut public buildings. That such wonders should have had graft attached to them was last week cause for grief and headlines in the thrifty State of Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Connecticut | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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