Word: graftings
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...Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
...regrettable indeed that a lady of her apparent intelligence classifies our State as one "where 'Graft' runs wild," and in my despair at reading such slander hurled against our noble commonwealth, I see a ray of probable sunlight, that I glean from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...
...that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
...guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft" seems to run wild...
...Presidential possibility; in Cincinnati; from uremic poisoning, after a brief illness. Starting as a lawyer, he enjoyed a versatile, meteoric career of public service. As judge of the Ohio Superior Court, he was succeeded in 1887 by William H. Taft. While governor of Ohio he consistently exposed political graft, regardless of party affiliations, and was re-elected with a plurality of 100,000 his second term, defeating Warren G. Harding. Although a national figure, Gov. Harmon's candidacy for Democratic Presidential nomination was doomed to failure, partly owing to the unfriendly attitude of William J. Bryan...