Word: graftings
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Days of gang-fights-war with the Essex Street Guerillas, with the Micks (Irish gang)-study, petty thievery, incipient graft, the Synagogue. The gang was born "with a bit of the apple from the tree of knowledge in our mouths. Of sex mysteries there were none for me . . . soon it was a general thing for the gang to visit Allen Street"- home of prostitution...
...Robinson: "There has been in some cases extravagance. There may be graft in some cases. But there can be no justification for the course pursued by the Department of Agriculture...
...trying part as a detective. We suppose it should be blamed on Mr. Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...
Congressional investigation of the conduct of the Veterans' Bureau (TIME, Nov. 5) continued with more hearings before a sub-committee of the Senate. The evidence presented, while almost entirely that of the investigators, pointed to a network of graft and political " pull." Some of the charges were...
...reported that the evidence of graft submitted in the inquiry has convinced President Coolidge that the Veterans' Bureau, which spends one-sixth of the Federal revenue, should be deprived of its independent status and placed under the control of a Cabinet officer...