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...delicate art of corrupting public officers has been taken up in New York by purveyors of milk and poultry. It is an axiom of the chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Mayor Kendrick and the exposition managers need fee-paying and, according to Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, graft-paying concessionaires. These, in turn, will come only if they may operate on Sundays, the most profitable amusement day of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Squalls | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Often Mr. King has carried on with a majority of one vote. Last week Conservative charges of U. S. liquor graft in the Canadian customs service resulted in the resignation of the King Government after defeat in the House by an opposition surplus of one ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One Canadian Ballot | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Human Frailty | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...bank in which some $70,000 of bankruptcy money had been placed by the Judge. The son, in addition to a good salary, received from the bank the equivalent of 3% interest on these deposits. Was it legitimate commission for securing the bankruptcy accounts, or was it graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: English Impeached | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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