Word: graftings
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Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Minister, delved into the accounts of his predecessor, Dr. Andreas Hermes. He informed Chancellor Stresemann that he had discovered evidence of " the biggest graft case in Germany's political history." Herr Stresemann decided to have the former Finance Minister arrested. It is expected- perhaps in vain-that Herr Hugo Stinnes' financial peregrinations will be exposed...
...piece; the first prize is $100,000 and smaller prizes are so distributed that about one ticket in 20 wins. Agencies are supposed to resell these tickets for $21. Instead the tickets are resold for $25 or even $30. This is why the agencies are a source of graft. There were formerly about 1,000 agencies, each worth $200 or $300 a month. The number of agencies was recently increased by the Cuban Congress to 2,000. These posts are an excellent bit of patronage for the President and the party in power. It was the recent increase...
...crisis came with the passage of the Lottery bill by the Cuban Congress over the President's veto. The. Cuban Lottery is a vested interest; Lottery agencies were a notorious source of graft; the President's son is Director of the system of State gambling. General Crowder was passionately opposed to the Lottery. A bill, doubling the number of agencies and making the appointees serve for life, was passed by the Congress, Zayas vetoed it, with the left eye slightly ajar; it was immediately passed over his head, in the Senate by a unanimous vote...
After the Lottery bill was law, the Congress by a joint resolution condemned the U. S. for interfering with the internal affairs of Cuba. General Crowder left for the U. S.; the old graft system is still entrenched; Cuba has her Lottery and $50,000,000 from American bankers...
...Reduce taxes. Reduce government expenditures. Cut out government graft. Establish budgets and audit system. Pay more attention to foreign commerce and less to foreign politics. Put the best men, not the men of so-called "best families," in government jobs...