Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with great pleasure that I read your fearless denunciation of the corrupt Republican machine in today's Crimson. I could not appreciate the amount of pressure that must have been brought to bear upon you in printing this editorial had I not received the following note from a gentleman high up in elephant circles...
...Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You people," he said at Bayonne, "are in the centre of a community dominated by an understudy of Tammany Hall. I cannot understand how you can submit to the domination of a machine that is corrupt, rapacious, unrelenting and unforgiving...
...public servant, for a bribe or whatever, permits the violation of a law, he is Corrupt...
...private citizen Corrupt who, by bribery or otherwise, tries to make or save money by breaking or evading...
...aimed at by an individual or a political organization can justify the secret or open employment of corrupt or otherwise dishonorable means. The spokesman of a party has the duty to tell the whole truth, and is justified in urging conclusions which his conscience approves, however distasteful or harmful they may be to the opposition. He proves himself unworthy if he knowingly accepts advantage from falsehood, even though not uttered or inspired by himself...