Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such an explanation, though if he the kindest, is not the most logical, for a good jamboree will always attract the multitude. In some other cause lies the reason for the fiasco. And the most probable is that of a lack of preparation, coupled with an over abundance of graft. It is possible that the fifteen million dollar loss which she will suffer may teach Philadelphia the lesson of preparedness; and it is also possible that Philadelphia is through giving parties...
...powerful hypodermic injection of graft...
...delicate art of corrupting public officers has been taken up in New York by purveyors of milk and poultry. It is an axiom of the chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party and would...
Mayor Kendrick and the exposition managers need fee-paying and, according to Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, graft-paying concessionaires. These, in turn, will come only if they may operate on Sundays, the most profitable amusement day of the week...
Often Mr. King has carried on with a majority of one vote. Last week Conservative charges of U. S. liquor graft in the Canadian customs service resulted in the resignation of the King Government after defeat in the House by an opposition surplus of one ballot...