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...number of citizens if the influence of the W. C. T. U. could be counteracted by advertisements representing the other side of the case. A possible advertisement might be:- "Vote Yes for the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act on Nov. 4th., and help relieve our country of crime, graft, hypocrisy, racketeers, wholesale disrespect of law and order--in short, of Prohibition...
...plan as they see them down the throats of the unsuspecting students. Excessive attachment for the English system of education and a feeling that it is definitely superior to that in force at Harvard, for example, is leading some of the masters to believe that they can graft this fruit on to a tree of purely native growth. Again there is the danger that the new relations between faculty and student body may give rise to a feeling of responsibility on the part of the former which may lead to an offensive form of paternalism, so foreign to the nature...
...Scranton families whose farms were found to cover coal. Now more than 60, he had respectably acquired banks, hotels, real estate. Twice (1914-18, 1926-30) he was mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall officials for police protection for certain gambling slot-machines. Scrantonians could not understand why Mayor Jermyn, already possessed of ample means, should stoop to racketeer graft...
Last Spring a Lackawanna County jury convicted him, his cousin Harry C. Friend and others of conspiracy as a result of the slot machine graft. Edward Miller, racketeer, had testified that he paid $4 per slot machine for protection, that Friend kept $1 and passed the balance on to "City Hall," that his monthly payments averaged...
...president of the borough of Queens, Maurice E. Connolly, had been jailed for fat sewer-contract graft (TIME...