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...such a system ever attempted on a large scale. It was Mr. Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally led to the law's repeal as a failure and South Carolina's movement toward State Prohibition. Under questioning, he admitted that local conditions then were "not dissimilar" to national conditions now. His remedy: "I would get a group of men on the Wet side...
Broken by death and disgrace though the Ohio Gang is, memories of its high revels and rapacious graft from 1921 to 1923 still linger in the back eddies of Washington gossip. Never has the full story been told of the clique which came into power the day Warren Gamaliel...
Topaze is a graceful and ever so Gallic play about graft in which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which...
...present Mexican Government of graft and murder must be superseded by a government of public opinion. ... It is sad to think of Ortiz Rubio being hurt...
...first two weeks they refuted the common objections to socialism. Communism was denounced last week. Tonight the subject is "Graft Unions vs. Labor Unions." The spell-binders are being led by Alfred Baker Lewis, former candidate for senator and now secretary of the New England Socialist Party...