Word: graftings
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...Manhattan druggist testified that there was a ring with which he had worked which secured illegal withdrawals of whiskey?some 50,000 or 60,000 cases?and divided some $200,000 in graft, part of which had gone to close friends of the Attorney General, including Jesse Smith and one Howard Mannington...
This storm in the session was aroused by the oil graft scandal (TiME, March 3), which was itself engendered by the sale of inferior benzine and gasoline to the Government at superior price...
...Government recently promised to institute prosecution against the major cases of graft...
Aside from any considerations of national defense or possible fraudulent handling of public property, the "Teapot Dome" scandal has assumed almost a purely political aspect. It happens that the Navy Department has lost nothing from the standpoint of national defense; it may turn out that the graft which the layman has come to expect in public administration was even less malignant than usual. But the affair has been an excuse for setting off all the fireworks of party animosity, of corrosive personal attacks and of bitter Congressional suspicion...
...things of every day occurrence. Strikes not only of a local but also a general character, such as involved the nation's railroads and telegraph system, were so numerous that to pick up an Italian newspaper and miss a front page heading prelating thereto would be an unusual surprise. Graft existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object...