Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graft exposures seem headed into a dead end. The nation is left with all the doubts raised by the scandals and no assurance that the house will be cleaned...
...days later, in uniform, he appeared at Jackson, Miss., and in a distinctly political speech, charged the Truman Administration with waste, graft, high taxes, political greed and socialism. Said MacArthur: "Whether it be by accident or design, such policy, formulated with reckless indifference to the preservation of constitutional liberty and our free enterprise economy, coupled with the rapid centralization of power in the hands of a few, is leading us toward a Communist state with as dreadful certainty as though the leaders of the Kremlin themselves were charting the course...
According to Monro, the two bills would greatly eliminate the graft that was present under the old G.I. Bill by allowing the veteran to handle all his bills himself...
Some people think that Air-Wicks purify the atmosphere by "absorbing" unpleasant odors. Not so. Air-Wicks give off chlorophyll and other scents which neutralize other odors. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome Manhattan Republican Newbold Morris, billed as the chief investigator to purify the graft-ridden Truman Administration, last week was doing effective duty as an Air-Wick...
...Moran, onetime first deputy fire commissioner of New York, for perpetrating a $500,000-a-year shakedown of the big city's oil-burner contractors (TIME, Feb. 18). His punishment: 15½ to 25 years. Still a mystery: what Moran did with some $300,000 in untracked graft money, which he refused to discuss...