Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertiser's word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become as tenuous as the now somewhat archaic distinction between "good" and "bad" trusts. It is likely, however, that Mr. Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their crusade...
...among the La Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers of the petition was Philip La Follette, brother of the present, son of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette. Action on the petition is in the hands of Attorney General John W. Reynolds, who has announced that presently, in the course of his duties...
...authentic, Anglo-Saxon stamp, retaining constitutional monarchy. Second, to accord to Rumania's national minorities a just and lawful share in government, whereas they have been exploited and oppressed. Third to debureaucratize and decentralize the Government, granting more authority to provinces and municipalities. Fourth, to reform the notoriously corrupt and unscrupulous Police, Gendarmerie and Secret Service. Fifth, to reconstruct the nation economically, providing broad measures of agricultural and industrial assistance. Sixth, to reverse the Bratiano policy of shutting out foreign capital, and rather welcome "peaceful penetration" of Rumania under appropriate and lenient restrictions...
...customs and Prohibition laws are probably the ones most commonly broken by the general run of U.S. citizens. . . . Is a private citizen corrupt, who, by bribery or otherwise, tries to make or save money by breaking or evading...
...gave utterance to these lines was, of course, the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Last week, she and her daughter-in-law, Princess Helen, mother of Baby King Mihai, jointly received in audience the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu - he who has just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash...