Word: graftings
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Lately "a lot of stories have been going around"--stories which have to do with graft in the City Council. That austere body, like Pooh Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, has decided that it must investigate itself and discover its own corruption or integrity as the case...
...such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...more need than ever for an executive capable of restraining the excesses of Congressmen. The best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
...rare presidential year which does not bring to this country a whole crop of favorite sons, slogans, graft and corruption, and popular histories of the two major political parties. The Century Company is therefore very much in step with the times in issuing some 1000 pages, profusely illustrated, for the further education of the men in the street who will soon--at least a small percentage of them--play the role of citizens...
...that the charges were "fantastic." He summoned a Grand Jury. Last week, swiftly, the Grand Jury indicted Mrs. Knapp on six criminal counts including grand larceny. Women-in-politics, and other citizens, drew no edification from these developments, beyond this: where many a Mr. Feasance might have acquired fat graft with one or two cunning strokes, this alleged Mrs. Feasance was accused of enjoying only $782.57 personally, obtained in trifling amounts from time to time by a series of clumsy, obvious, petty pilferings...