Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...register crime and bad government. At least we think it was that, because they continually mentioned the defective bridge, the unmentionable Gas Plant, and the impossible trolley line--so much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting of the townsfolk to defend the editorials which had been dashed from Joe's fiery pen. He said quite frankly that he couldn...
...Anglo-Catholics only make the more pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental paganism of the Mediterranean races is veneered by Christian sentiment. To attempt to graft it on the English church is hopeless...
...abroad to vote for an independent candidate with a hastily formed and politically irresponsible party so long as John W. Davis stands four-square for these policies with the backing of a party which believes today, as it has in the past, that public office is not a private graft but a public trust...
Charles W. Bryan at Elk Point, S. Dak., declared that "the nation has been humiliated and the world has been shocked at the dishonesty, the incompetency, the greed, the graft, and the corruption that has been uncovered by Congress...
...Government is making great progress toward rooting out governmental graft, including padded payrolls. As an example of what has been accomplished, look at the budget of the city of Valencia, which has had a deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas. Without curtailing the public service, this has been converted into a favorable balance of 1,000,000 pesetas. The Government has gone ahead with the good roads program and the extension of the common-school system...