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...Graft in politics. The bulk of this traffic is small change, worth no ambitious man's time...
Mayor Walker had spent three weeks at Albany trying to convince Governor Roosevelt that he was innocent of the charges filed against him by Samuel Seabury. They were not accusations of overt graft and corruption which would bring a conviction in a criminal court and Governor Roosevelt was not trying them like a criminal case. Rather were they charges of indiscretion and bad judgment indicative of a public and private carelessness about money and men. Taken together they created the impression of wrong-doing but legal proof was lacking of specific violations of the law. The Mayor was left looking...
...commonplace for comment by most Washington correspondents are the traditional and legalized forms of petty graft practiced by Senators and Representatives at taxpayers' expense. To initiate voters into this Congressional mystery William Pickett Helm, oldtime syndicate writer, has written Washington Swindle Sheet published this week by Albert & Charles Boni of Manhattan. Taking as his text the official audit of the Senate's miscellaneous outlay for fiscal 1931, Mr. Helm shows how Senators pad their pockets...
...first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked: "So did Tweed." Not ten minutes after the hearing began Governor Roosevelt, who perhaps had even more at stake politically than the Mayor, demonstrated his complete command...
...publisher of Aero Digest (acquired 1922) he has bitterly attacked what he thought was graft, sham, inefficiency, stupidity in the aeronautics industry and in Government functions affecting aviation. All but fanatical on the subject of national defense, he preached the gospel of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell. Last year he hired Major General James Edmond Fechet, retired head of the Army Air Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce...