Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government would have demonstrated a blot on the record of the former Democratic Administration. The fact that not one Democratic official of any prominence has been successfully prosecuted−although Democrats were in office at a time when the large and hasty expenditures of the War made graft an easy opportunity−is one of the best of the campaign arguments of the Democrats...
...public questions for fear dissension will rupture their social group and they will be accused of being 'political.' They are dodging a clear duty. . . . Corruption in high places is revolting, but the condition that will prove fatal to this country is lethargy in local government; deterioration and graft in the police force of your city; leniency and political pull in state and county courts, and indifference and lack of personal possessory pride on the part of each citizen in the affairs of his local government...
...administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following the Spanish-American War; the Administration of President Taft stirred the country with its Ballinger episode, and that nation is now shocked by the events which have occurred since March 4, 1921. On the other side...
...Under such circumstances there must inevitably occur mistakes in judgment, instances of favoritism and sporadic cases of actual graft. The committee will have no difficulty in finding cases of each kind. But they signify nothing unless there is reason to believe that graft and favoritism are widespread and chronic in the work of the Bureau...
...Daugherty investigation was devoted chiefly to calling ex-employees of the Department of Justice and trying to establish that certain alleged war graft cases had not been prosecuted for political reasons. One of the witnesses brought in the name of Secretary of War Weeks who, it was asserted, had withdrawn a case from the Department of Justice instead of allowing a claim for $5,000,000 to be prosecuted...