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Said M. Stelmachovics: "The rapid economic recovery of Russia during the past twelve months has been attended by an enormous increase in the number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the figure is nearly 20 fold. . . . This situation has been brought about by slipshod administrative and financial control, and by lack of care in the selection of employes. . . . 41% of the culprits had been employed less than six months . . . [and] 58% of them were addicted to drink or debauched living. . . . Bookkeeping...
...they were lawyers. They had not known about the knock-out system which British dealers use to get graft out of a sale...
...jealous criticism. Such is the fate of Paavo Nurmi who comes to the Stadium on Friday for his last great race in America. Although he has been absolved technically from the recent charges made against him, his name is still under the shadow of abuse. The cry of graft cannot be stilled as instantly as it was raised...
...stranger, very much alone in a strange land, this must have seemed like a singularly unsportsmanlike proceeding. First to be reprimanded for every scheduled race in which sickness kept him from competing, and then to have his travelling accounts ransacked for petty graft must have been insufferable treatment even for the quiet and undemonstrative Nurmi...
Maritime Customs. Most of the import duties of China are collected and administered by foreigners, chiefly British. Since these revenues are needed to pay the interest on China's foreign loans, it was thought unwise to abandon them to the graft-ridden officialdom of the old Em- pire. Pseudo-Republican China resents this stricture on its sover- eignty...