Word: graftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suspicion of graft, had sent the army planes of a sudden into the air, they would have found themselves out-maneuvered and shot down. The private planes might, in due time, be fitted for military service, but modern aerial warfare is too quick and deadly to await their reconstruction. Obviously, what the situation demands is not a larger air force, but an air force whose existing equipment is effective, up-to-date, and at least on a par with that of the private lines...
Usually when the U.S. goes after graft in Washington, the proceedings resemble a barbecue. The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that. None of this was characteristic of a graft hunt which last week had Washington on the anxious bench. In spite of complete secrecy, scandal of the first order was brewing in the War Department. One after another War Department officials were going before a grand jury with testimony about automobiles and underwear...
...whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble I had. But I was no diplomat...
...Graft. All this haste in pushing out Federal money has resulted in cases of padded payrolls and political favoritism. Last week PWA had 130 investigators looking into CWA & PWA frauds. Mr. Hopkins had to appoint Army Engineers to take charge of CWA work in Chicago and Los Angeles. In Colorado he supplanted a state committee that was not getting action because of political quarrels by one of his own administrators...
Besides investigators Mr. Hopkins keeps busy a set of accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about...