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...those in power then they keep others out. The first insurance man is allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local man. It may not be in restraint of trade but it certainly gives a lot of people a chance to work a little graft. It never helps the town because a lot of the inhabitants get mad and buy from other places...
...experience of New York and other cities indicates that if the office of Mayor is to be kept honest and efficient the political backing of the incumbents must not be based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager...
...sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown at him by the natives, entrances his assailants with a demonstration of his superior skill...
...colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society...
Among the chances for honest graft which come a legislator's way, few are more hallowed by time and custom than mileage allowances. U. S. Congressmen get 20? per mile for traveling between their homes and the Capitol between sessions, may collect whether they travel or not. Ohio legislators get only 3.6? per mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions...