Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor Lebanese immigrants, Wessin is a rare bird among the fine-feathered Dominican officers. He prefers fatigues or suntans to fancy uniforms, scorns the usual fruit-salad decorations, and no one has ever accused him of growing rich on graft. He lives in a modest $12,000 concrete house with his wife and two sons, enjoys cockfighting and baseball. He is painfully shy among strangers, speaks only Spanish, and seldom says much. But he is a devout Catholic in a part of the world where males pay little attention to their religion, and he regards Communism with a bleak, uncompromising...
...downfall in 1955, Perón, assisted by his wife, Evita, lavished huge sums on industrialization and neglected the vital farm sector, created a vastly inefficient bureaucracy to produce full employment at the expense of the state treasury, and filled his own and his henchmen's pockets with graft. Successive governments have been trying to unscramble the mess and straighten out the Peronistas ever since...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...
...news of the "Ceara solution" spread, other linha dura officers took it as a hunting license. They ousted the mayor of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba...
...suddenly quit "because of health" to take a less taxing job as Ambassador to Mexico, and people soon after discovered that his aides had been shaking down bookies and oil-burner dealers for $1,500,000. There was no evidence that O'Dwyer was in on the graft, but he could not bring himself to return to Manhattan until ten years later...