Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves to out of my box in the absence of the clerk. Newark must be a temporary stopping off place for the latter class of humans, resting presumably before touring the State of New Jersey, where "Graft" seems to run wild...
...Presidential possibility; in Cincinnati; from uremic poisoning, after a brief illness. Starting as a lawyer, he enjoyed a versatile, meteoric career of public service. As judge of the Ohio Superior Court, he was succeeded in 1887 by William H. Taft. While governor of Ohio he consistently exposed political graft, regardless of party affiliations, and was re-elected with a plurality of 100,000 his second term, defeating Warren G. Harding. Although a national figure, Gov. Harmon's candidacy for Democratic Presidential nomination was doomed to failure, partly owing to the unfriendly attitude of William J. Bryan...
...will give occasion for graft. Rebuttal: so has, does, and always will the protective tariff...
...beginning of this century, when Theodore Roosevelt was being hornswoggled out of New York politics into the obscurity of the U. S. Vice Presidency, the administration of New York City was noisome. Where Tammany Hall did not control, the gangs of Senator Thomas C. Platt (1833-1910) took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket." An honest, upright man, he used the tactics of corrupt bosses, but with better intelligence...
...have labored to secure decent attention from the Boston City Council for such a branch, similar to the business branches which progressive cities elsewhere throughout the Nation have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community and a "scheme" on the part of the Chamber of Commerce to help its own interests. Now Councillor Fitzgerald suddenly grows strangely tender for the convenience of Boston's business men and on this part of his case as aforesaid it is difficult to have patience...