Word: graftings
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...conspiring to graft on city sewer contracts (TIME, Jan. 2), three other public servants of New York City and one private citizen were indicted last week after long investigations-Maurice E. Connolly, onetime (1911-28) President of the Borough of Queens; John M. Phillips, a sewer-pipe agent, friend of Connolly; Frederick B. Seeley, city engineer; Clifford B. Moore, consulting engineer...
...pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs. Knapp on charges similar to the step-daughter graft...
...There is no such thing as graft which is honest. Let us stop that practice if there has been...
...light of the consequences of the case, however, the finding of the jury was the only possible one. If there is really to be an attempt made to clean up the graft in the state government a beginning had to be made somewhere, and even the citizens of New York, accustomed as they are to the manipulations of Tammany, might object to such open toleration of dishonesty as an acquittal would indicate. On the other hand, the more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many...
...lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned as Chicago's first Negro alderman and as a Cook County commissioner...