Word: graftings
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...Senate lashed the Attorney General out of office while its investigators were following the trail of his gang's graft to the doors of Brother Mal's Ohio bank. Asked for his ledgers to trace the deposits inside, Brother Mal said he had burned them up. Long afterward the Supreme Court of the U. S. in a famed decision said his behavior was wrong and ordered him to tell the Senate all he knew about the Ohio Gang's fiscal affairs. But the Senate had ceased to care, never asked any more questions, let Brother Mal continue...
...stake him as cheaply as possible (the way E. W. Scripps began), let him be part owner; the greater the young man's profits, the greater E. W. Scripps's. It was as an editorial success formula that Publisher Scripps enjoined his young men to attack Graft and Corruption, to cry out for the Common People. He never enjoined them always to put crusading ahead of the busi ness office. He never spent money to house his properties handsomely as civic institutions. They were dividend-paying news factories and looked...
...best the G. P. U. is patriarchal, at its worst it is the most efficient means for extorting graft ever devised...
...roving longshoreman, gold miner and fisherman in British Columbia and Alaska, Governor Olson had studied law by correspondence, returned to Minneapolis in 1915 to be admitted to the bar, to marry and to become county attorney. In 1927 his drive against city graft won him fame. A forceful speaker. Governor Olson today plays golf in the 80s, drives a Chrysler. With small personal means, he is said to be still trying to raise the last payment on his campaign expenses...
...Russia." Playwright Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow 16 years later after further distinguishing himself with the great novel Mertvuiya Dushi (Dead Souls), and after exhausting himself on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish...