Word: graftings
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...word Lord Peel opposed granting Dominion Status to India either now or at any specified future time, drew exclamations of fury by his cool sneer and pun that parliamentary institutions in India "are not growth but graft...
Indignation at the electoral government of U. S. cities has flared up this summer all across the land. New York, Chicago, Dallas have had scandals laid at their mayoral or aldermanic administration doors. Detroit ousted its mayor on graft charges, elected a reform mayor after discussing city managership (TIME, Sept...
...Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched on her throne...
...week the Washington Court House, Ohio, sheriff arrested Mr. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty and held him for $40,000 bail, in connection with the failure early this year of two local banks, one of them the supposed repository of some of the Ohio Gang's graft...
...Graft-ridden and Crown-trodden, the people of Rumania lost last week their great champion against the small, oligarchic moneyed class; Professor Iuliu Maniu, the first peasant-born Prime Minister which Rumania ever...