Word: graftings
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...Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache...
...picture is not a pretty one, honeycombed as it is with special privileges, rottenness, and graft. But the finishing touches are yet to be added. News from Washington indicates that the "veterans" (many of whom almost reached the Atlantic scaboard) are determined to slice off their last chunk of federal funds by demanding immediate payment of certificates which fall...
...spies, .male & female, on his payroll. No shotgun was ever big enough to make Dictator Gomez marry and before his death last week he had produced at least So bastards. One of them, Gonzalo, got himself shot last week attempting to stage a deathbed marriage for his mother. From graft alone he assembled the second largest private fortune in South America, estimated at over...
...Louis XV when he devised an escapement for clocks, fought with a rival watchmaker who claimed his invention. He became the protégé of a minor palace official, purchased the office of secretary of the royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly left poorer than he had ever been...
...case before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel...