Word: graftings
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Some day, graft charges against municipal officials may accumulate above ground, perhaps in connection with airports or chutes for rockets to the moon. For the present, sewers are the conventional source of civic turpitude. Last fortnight's effluvia from the sewers of Queens, a Borough of New York City, were characteristic of a predominant type of big-city government...
...Centuries. On the stage of a tiny Greenwich village theatre are set a series of platforms to represent the rooms of a smelly tenement. Through these rooms wanders the disjointed, often dismembered, saga of the sorrows of a Jewish immigrant family. Poverty, graft, prostitution, suicide are a few of the woes that befall. The play is given by The New Playwrights, all of whose theatricals are in the most modern manner. The New Playwrights do not cater to the general public; nor, in general, the public to The New Playwrights...
...Senator Reed has a very bright mind but a very badly equipped mind. When he strays away from his specialty, which is the prosecution of graft, he quickly betrays not only a pathetic ignorance of the facts but, what is worse, a lamentable inability to weight facts when they are presented...
Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
...nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just put in a coin"). When the graft is on the point of being exposed by a Senate investigation, President Markham, broken-hearted by his followers' duplicity, commits suicide, thus saving his own good name and the Party...