Word: graftings
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Since Samuel Seabury started his investigation of New York City politics, an illuminating chapter on municipal government has been drawn from the great metropolis. At first the revelations were the usual stories of graft, bribery, and corruption, which were exceptional only for the scale upon which they were operated, but since Mayor LaGuardia's inauguration the investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports...
...aggrandizement of the Hall, a chase which hesitates at no means to achieve its end. Its long reign of power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical as they may be, they cannot fail to be moved profoundly by maudlin sadism...
...underneath it. The whole tendency is to squeeze out the competent and independent man and to create a hierarchy of those used to obeying, and when the original dictator goes, chaos is the result. Democracy, it is quite true, has been a failure in many countries but democracy was grafted in those countries on the stem of absolutism, and the graft does not do well. "If the people of this country in great numbers become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there can be only one end to it and that end is civil...
...best of them. Hearing that his father is hill, and being temporarily fed up with his play boy existence, he jumps into his special custom model roadster, and sets out for the reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn for revenge, and when his sister is raped by the funeral director during his father's burial service, he sets out for revenge, lassos the culprit in his spending roadster, and drags him along the road behind...
...only he can know--remained true to the cause of justice and the aviation companies. If a wicked and paternalistic government is going to interfere in a business which has been going along very nicely and in which the promoters have been content with a comparatively small amount of graft, then Charlie for one is not going to have any relations with that government. It will simply have to get along without him as best it can; for he is made of sterner stuff than most men and his principles mean something to him. And if some sceptics wonder rather...