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...article referred to does not in any manner specify or distinguish the live poultry industry from the dressed poultry, so that many of your readers, not familiar with the subject, after reading the article referred to would naturally conclude the entire poultry industry to be infested with graft and racketeering. The dressed poultry industry has no connection whatever with the live poultry trade, and is a distinct and separate line of business...
...Hugh Montague Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton. had just published a report after 18 months in office as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. Over four years ago the British public was startled to learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty disclosures about protection from raids granted night-club owners. Viscount Byng of Vimy was drafted as Commissioner to reform the force. Eighteen months ago Lord Trenchard, a cannon-voiced officer known as ''Boom" to the Royal Air Force, succeeded Byng. Last week's report...
...control of the stock of a construction company known as Warren Brothers, then awarded them the contract. They built the road at the magnificent rate of $120,000 a mile (similar road building costs about $40,000 a mile elsewhere in Cuba) which netted nearly $30,000,000 in graft for Machado & friends. Similar business with the new Cuban capitol building brought in another...
...Democracy, as guest last week in his big red brick house on the South Side. where he lives with his second wife and their three adopted children. Briefly in 1930 the breath of scandal touched Mayor Kelly. He was indicted for helping, according to the prosecutor, to graft $5,000,000 out of sewage disposal contracts let by the Sanitary District. Others were tried, but not Engineer Kelly, whose case was quietly quashed...
Council of nine. Proof against embryo dictators, this constitution leaked no power. Only leaks were heavy graft and heavy taxation of private business. The taxes hit Montevideo, Uruguay's only sizeable city and one-quarter of its population. The graft kept the Colorado Party fat. The Colorados pushed through graft-rich social reforms: old age pensions, universal suffrage, government monopolies of industry. Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias...