Word: graftings
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...Smith was growing more & more disappointed with his successor's record. His feelings were hurt when his old friend "Frank" stopped coming to him for advice and suggestions. He felt that the Governor was too much interested in the White House to take a strong, resolute stand against local graft and corruption. He heard rumors of what Governor Roosevelt was supposed to have said about him behind his back. Gradually a famed political friendship was wedged apart into hostility. Last year Mr. Smith openly fought a reforestation amendment to the State Constitution sponsored by Governor Roosevelt?and lost...
Warren Gamaliel Harding, U. S. President under whose nose graft & corruption flourished, lay monumentally entombed at Marion, Ohio. Albert Bacon Fall, released last month from the New Mexico State Penitentiary, was a sick, broken old man at his Three Rivers (N. Mex.) ranch. He is sitting up a few hours each...
...money he would have borne his part of the loss. He did not receive the bonds in his car but in his home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing to veto a proposal for higher cab fares, passed by the Board of Aldermen, which would have profited the organization $1.000.000 per year...
...Bedlam Reigns As Walker Testifies," "Jimmy's Wisecracks Convulse Audience," "Crowds Cheer Walker On Street." With these headlines the newspapers record the popular reaction to the examination of the Mayor of New York on charges of graft and incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are so accustomed to the Tammany Tiger that they prefer the smell of the beast to clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With...
...implications of such a condition lie far deeper than the Herald would suggest. Looking to their elders for examples of an acceptable code of ethics, the offending undergraduate officials find on one side shameless dishonesty and on the other helpless complacency. Their natural reaction is to regard graft as a legitimate profit, the assumed right of officialdom. The immediate consequence of such an attitude firmly established in the minds of these college men becomes tragically obvious when one considers that they are destined to fill responsible positions in the world. There is probably need for some such disciplinary action...