Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist economics. A stock figure in Soviet folklore is the Georgian with a suitcase of scarce goods in one hand and a bribe ready in the other. But the scale of Georgian wheeling and dealing grew intolerable to party officials in the Kremlin, mainly because it began to spread, Mafia-style, beyond illegal business deals into politics. "Noxious influences led to corruption, moral and political," admitted a report of the Georgian Communist Party central committee two weeks ago. "Party and economic leaders were led on a leash by dark dealers and became their obedient servants...
...elected Richard Nixon to another four-year term as President of the U.S. We would like to see him complete that term without harassment from the media Mafia! Please exhibit the restraint you would if he were a Democrat...
...many layers of political corruption that involved both Democrats and Republicans and helped sink the administration of incumbent Republican Governor William T. Cahill. While Democrat Byrne did not directly link corruption and Watergate to the Republican Party, he repeatedly reminded audiences that an FBI wiretap once recorded a Mafia figure as observing that Byrne could not be bought. The theme of his campaign was "One honest man can make the difference." For the most part, however, he avoided taking clear stands on the major issues...
...billed as a welcome-home luncheon for former White House Chief of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman. But when reporters approached some of the 70 guests invited to the all-male Los Angeles gathering, they blanched as if they had been caught attending a Mafia testimonial. Snapped Los Angeles Times Mirror Co. Board Chairman Franklin Murphy when asked to identify himself: "That's really irrelevant...
DONLEAVY IS MORE successful in populating the big city with a host of tortured and combatative New Yorkers. He prods his hero with encounters with nervous executives, diffident bums, desperate women, fat Mafia men, and seemingly ubiquitous subway perverts...