Word: graftings
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...Washington admitted that there had been graft in the supply department, that the beef and biscuits had given 70% of the army fever or scurvy, and that the water supply had been mismanaged. But when George Dewey, now Admiral, steamed into the cold, sunny harbor of New York, he was greeted with more noise than all the Spanish warships made together, and people were so glad to see him that they bought him a house in Washington, which he almost immediately gave to his wife...
tNow concerned with charges of political graft and corruption during the rule of D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon and Boss...
...Graft? Gardner Jackson and the Defense Committee had another grievance. Last January, U. S. Communists reported to Moscow that they had raised $500,000 for "the Sacco-Vanzetti relief work." Last week the Defense Committee revealed that it had received only $300 from Communist sources. Where did the rest go? The Defense Committee had some big bills...
Hearst newspapers have always made a stunning show of fighting for the masses. Mr. Hearst has fought the trusts (with good results) ; he has fought "the interests" (whatever they may be); he has bellowed against political graft; he supported the Bonus...
...last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to collect money to maintain the papal armies, which became a great scandal in the 17th Century. So great was the probable graft that Lorenzo Corsini, later Pope Clement...