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Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among San Francisco journalists...
Editor Older soon discovered that his newspaper was not on the pure list. It was receiving "pay" from railroads. It was receiving money from political parties for candidacy support. But this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight-loving, Editor Older set out to purify San Francisco. His great and good friend Rudolph Spreckels, sugar tycoon, agreed to help him. They found lined up against them potent local powers. Patrick Calhoun, hardheaded, two-fisted president of United Railroads; Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, tall, handsome, the people's idol...
...university there, and after being graduated from Yale's law school in 1910, practiced law there until the War. After the War he was executive secretary of the Des Moines Municipal Research Bureau, which has made that community one of the few in the U. S. with little political graft...
...govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian junket on camelback. He spoke as a keen, impartial eye-witness of Egypt's tendency to graft, misgovernment...
Without increasing taxes Banker Soong magically increased the Canton tax yield from one to ten million dollars per month. He has said that he did it by cutting down graft, by rigid Harvard budgeting. On ten million dollars per month the Nationalists launched their successful war of conquest, financed additionally for a time by grants from Soviet Russia, a state with which they soon quarreled, are still quarreling...