Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light of the consequences of the case, however, the finding of the jury was the only possible one. If there is really to be an attempt made to clean up the graft in the state government a beginning had to be made somewhere, and even the citizens of New York, accustomed as they are to the manipulations of Tammany, might object to such open toleration of dishonesty as an acquittal would indicate. On the other hand, the more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many...
...lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned as Chicago's first Negro alderman and as a Cook County commissioner...
Lately "a lot of stories have been going around"--stories which have to do with graft in the City Council. That austere body, like Pooh Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, has decided that it must investigate itself and discover its own corruption or integrity as the case...
...such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...more need than ever for an executive capable of restraining the excesses of Congressmen. The best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...