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...party must be cursing their fate that the first stages of a presidential campaign year should be featured by such revelations as the Senate committee is bringing to light in regard to the oil deals that took place in 1920. There no longer seems to be any doubt that graft was rampant in more fields than this one during the Harding regime, but here particularly lies the threat to a Republican victory in November. Dishonesty that took place eight years ago is not likely to arouse much public indignation now, especially if the guilt can be attributed to politically dead...
Already Will Hays, Chairman of the National Committee in 1920, has been ingulfed by the rising tide to graft, and the waters have even beat menacingly, if ineffectively at the feet of Secretary Mellon, while the spray has carried even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive...
HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...
Last month, Tammany Hall, famed Manhattan political lair, was sold for $700,000. Last fortnight, the vigilant New York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried "Graft!" But Tammanyites asked, "Who profited?" Joseph P. Day, whose reputation as a realtor in and about Manhattan is no less illustrious than Peter Minuit's,* had handled both the sale and the speedy resale. The question having arisen, Mr. Day announced that the resale price was $770,000. The question being pressed, Mr. Day agreed that the 10% profit should go to Tammany Hall...
...taking "anything I could get in an engineering way." After he had been bossing "the biggest job in the country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications...