Word: graftings
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...Simple Graft." The Senate's sugar vote was the culmination of a year's efforts by high and low sugar lobbies. Last week Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...
...council drafted formal charges. They were vague. Mr. Hopkins had once said that he was a Republican before a certain antagonist had left Hungary. This was called "unAmerican" of Mr. Hopkins. Also it was charged he had been at fault in graft that last year sent two councilmen to the penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...
...must have been in Haiti before the Americans came in order to appreciate the miracles they have accomplished. Where once was waste and graft, there is now," concluded the President, "an honest Government...
...chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, he works industriously for the development and efficient maintenance of the Army. He helped expose graft in the Veterans Bureau which sent its director, Charles Forbes, to the penitentiary. War veterans, however, are suspicious of him because of his vote against the Bonus...
...Hollywood Revue", at the University for four days, easily takes a place among the best screen musical shows, in spite of a somewhat tiresome manner of presentation that involves letting the curtain fall every five minutes. But this straight revue method fortunately prevents any attempt to graft the customary inane plot on the picture. The individual scenes are introduced by Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel, who for the most part are successful in making this barren role humorous. The acts themselves are excellent, with the exception of a peculiarly irritating sob-ballad by Charles King...