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...years ago the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
...Kehoe from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory $100,000. In 1926 the Herald Tribune published a story stating that one William Kehoe, onetime Manhattan corporation counsel and city official who had been convicted in a milk graft scandal (TIME, July 26, 1926), had purchased an estate at Garrison, N. Y. Two days later William Kehoe informed the Herald Tribune he had made no such purchase. The newspaper sought the true purchaser, found him five days afterward to be William H. Kehoe, an assistant corporation counsel...
...Port of New York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...
...gang's graft, according to Means, came in part from the sale of protection to big New York bootleggers. Means's account of how this graft was collected: he would engage two rooms at a Manhattan hotel. On the table of one room would be placed a huge glass bowl with money in it. 'Leggers would arrive at prearranged hours with their tribute in $1,000 bills. Means would watch them from the next room as they dropped their money into the bowl and departed. In this way 'leggers bought protection without putting money in anybody's hands. Declares Means...
Reconstruction in Germany after the War is the subject of this broad-focused novel; as in our own Reconstruction, villainy, graft, murder, vice, hysteria saturate the atmosphere. The central figures of the story inhabit a tenement in a German city; the War whirls them apart; in the guerrilla warfare of peace they are blown together again, but now some are big businessmen, others are professionally criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent...