Word: graftings
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...last straw in the Norfolk controversy was gently laid on by the Boston Traveller yesterday. A vast three inch head across the top of its columns streamed forth the news that Norfolk prison graft had been bared in the Hurley Report; it was not until the story had lapsed into small type that the Traveller admitted two very important things--that the report had not yet been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into...
...plain fact of the matter is that our Lindy has not been very clever about this business. It is perfectly evident that the air mail contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months...
Where there are subsidies there is apt to be graft and corruption. On that as- sumption the U. S. Senate last summer began looking into air and ocean mail contracts. A special committee headed by Alabama's Black found that U. S. shipping men bought vessels for almost nothing from the Government and then collected fat fees for carrying almost no mail, that U. S. airline executives made big speculative profits while small concerns were being frozen off the air mail map. But not until last week did Senator Black and his committee strike pay dirt that, in newspaper...
...while Field wrote his column (Sharps and Flats) for the paper and unprintable verses for his own amusement, and Dennis wrote editorials. Then, as now, sanitation was prime news in Chicago. His editorials urged construction of a drainage canal (started in 1892), deplored the famed Haymarket riots (1886) and graft in the County Commissioner's office...
...fortunate girl is spirited away to the Outing Club House where the final choice is made. When asked why there were three deans on the judging committee this year, E. Gordon Bill, dean of the Faculty of Dartmouth College, said "I think it is because of the rumors of graft in past years...