Word: graftings
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...What is the matter with the Oxford Union? some say all young men are under Flanders' Field; but in reality, according to Mr. Lewis, they have merely realised that politics is not a profitable business. This is not the case in America, however, where he finds a little healthy graft keeps the government from "stupidity...
...attempt to incite group activities within the unit meets with the same chilly reception that greeted the short-lived Economics Society. There is some indication of the prevailing spirit in the fact that Leverett was the last to retain a House Committee selected by the master. Some attempt to graft consciousness of the Houe Plan onto the residents has been made by the new elective committee, but it is still considered wise to insure the success of a dance by banding together with Adams. In other directions, paradoxically, the committee has met with success; the library is kept...
...recent statement, was the new Fire Station which is now being erected on the plot of ground between the Yard and Memorial Hall, the site of the Old Rogers Building. Lynch cited this structure which will cost $250,000 as an example of the flagrant wastefulness and graft of the Mayor and City Council...
Emerging as it does from the storm of squabblings over graft and machine politics which surround us, a conference held recently at Princeton, N. J., between professors of political science and political leaders, was a distinct relief...
...reason for Tammany's long sway, which has never been broken more than temporarily, is not always understood. It is generally assumed that it is a matter of graft, of efficient wardheeling, and of reciprocity from all protected interests. People forget that Tammany paid the rent for the family that was about to be evicted, that they distributed free coal during a hard winter, that last summer they gave the children of the neighborhood an outing when the city sweltered. There are those, however, who do not forget, who know that the organization which is no doubt making a little...