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Most people are afraid of a "dripping Wet'' candidate, not that "Prohibition that does not prohibit" is desirable but history indicates that "dripping Wet officials" and all kinds of graft and immorality go hand in hand and in their Mutual Admiration Society, "reciprocity" is their password and their slogan is "An aye for an aye and a toot for a toot...
When William Marcy Tweed bossed Tammany Hall and New York City, political livelihoods were made by out-&-out peculation. Boss Charles Francis Murphy brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. But fashions in municipal graft change. Nowadays Tammany feeds largely on the real estate and building businesses. How it is done was clearly illustrated last week by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury to the eight-month-old Republican-controlled Legislative investigation of New York City's administration...
...Columbia's Head Coach Lou Little, who, having lately broken a vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I've been through college myself, and I know the graft connected with college publications, for instance, is on such a scale that it would put Tammany Hall to shame...
Largest salary earned by any of these men was that of Sheriff Farley-$15,000 per year for the two years he has been sheriff. Realists realized that the officials did not profit much personally, that their mysterious incomes were simply collections for the Tammany campaign chest, party graft, not individual...
...Allegations of graft in the Department of Buildings & Grounds of the University...