Word: incorruptibles
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...Campaign Expenditures appeared at Republican State Committee headquarters in Augusta, demanded a list of its campaign contributors. The sole, non-partisan duty of this Senate Committee is to ferret out corruption. Day later one of its Democratic members, Washington's Schwellenbach, telephoned Democratic headquarters with news of some incorrupt but exciting discoveries...
...offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged. In reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...incompetence and corruption. In the surrounding county, where Author Taft was elected attorney in 1926, only to lose in 1928, reform came harder, but the county can now hold its head almost as high as Cincinnati. Can the movement last? Author Taft thinks so, although he admits that an incorrupt government steps on many toes, recalls a prominent manufacturer who has left the Charter group because he could not get a $2 parking ticket "fixed." Mr. Taft also warns that local good-government movements should beware of tangling up with State or national politics, as the Charter people learned...
From Newton, that bewildering little suburb of Highlands, Falls, Centres, and Corners, yet enviably incorrupt in spite of the names it is called, comes word that the grammar schools will no longer annoy the proverbial little Johnnie with marks, but that the teachers at regular intervals shall consult with his parents, and only they shall know how their son stands in his studies. The result will be that the child, will no longer be harrassed by his parents' bribes and threats, or by his schoolmates scoffs, will with encouragement, go about his work free of care, and with...