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...contractor stood accused of profiting by $800,000 on a''$1,000,000 contract for city transit repairs; the same contractor had sent the city treasurer a Christmas bottle of whisky, cheerily wrapped in $100 bills. Dilworth, never touched personally by the scandals, admitted that "We were lax." It seemed for a while that his hopes for the governorship had been dashed...
...CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The council is expected to revise the already lax rules that govern fasts and Friday abstinence from meat. The canon laws that govern the antiquated Index of Forbidden Books will be brought up to date; some bishops have asked that the Index be abolished. The council may recommend that greater attention be paid to science and modern teaching methods in seminaries. Canon law relating to impediments to marriage will probably be reformed-although the church is likely to make a strong reaffirmation of its stand against artificial birth control. Presumably, the council will take a stand against sins...
...although that world was narrow, it was not yet lax. Proper conduct was defined in terms of personal integrity and loyalty, qualities which have declined in this era of McCarthy purges and USIA propaganda techniques. Welles could defy powerful business interests and his own friends in the name of moral principle. The Good Neighbor was a creation of personal conscience, not of a cynical, pragmatic appraisal of the importance of allies in a world struggle...
...revelations of corruption. The Republican Alliance, a G.O.P. reform group, hired three professional investigators to uncover more scandals. In court last week, Dilworth argued tearfully that there was no need for a grand jury investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service was fine." But in the welter of scandal that surrounded him, there was reason to wonder whether Dilworth could survive politically. As a reformer at the head of a sullied reform administration...
...Lusty & Lax. Part of the answer lies in the lusty, freewheeling nature of the American Exchange, which professionals still call "the Curb" in memory of its humble beginnings. Unlike the older...