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...that the electorate has been agitated to a state of anticipation, if not of excitement, by the prospective election of the 31st President, how might shrewd crooks make gain without accepting direct graft...
...tribute to public life," says Mr. Kent, than whom no pundit is more alert and merciless in exposing public villains, "that governmental graft is bigger news than any other kind...
...Means crockery was only minor graft in the Department of Justice where he was lodged under Daugherty. He was convicted of taking a bribe from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year...
...since reflected the atmosphere of Haiti, but the present volume is the first authentic, comprehensive history of the island. The past established, Mr. Davis proceeds to sort out the truth from the array of scandal and propaganda that has befogged the present Haitian problem. He stultifies prevalent accusations of graft. He gives America full credit for feats of rehabilitation, agriculture, public health, policing and education, in the face of such stupendous difficulties as 95% illiteracy. But in no uncertain terms he flays American failure to prepare Haitians for the independent self-government which will be theirs, according to treaty...
...tough preparatory schools and colleges, big boys sell the radiators, fire-escapes, bedroom crockery, etc., to smaller boys. In Chicago, big boys sell small boys the privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last...