Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge at Brule, Wis. (see p. 7). Governor Zimmerman, candidate for reelection, began opening Hoover-Zimmerman clubs. Governor Zimmerman said that after the eight-year (1912-1920) Democratic régime in Washington "it is but a miracle that there is anything at all left of America to be corrupt with." This was a rebuttal of current Democratic talk about the Oil Scandals...
...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...
With great solemnity, violent denunciation and impassioned infinitive-splitting by the prosecutors, the Massachusetts House of Representatives last week voted 196 to 18 the impeachment of Massachusetts' Attorney General, Arthur K. Reading. It was the first time in 148 years that the Commonwealth had found out a corrupt public officer and affixed censure. Mr. Reading, guilty of at least two blatant indiscretions, speedily resigned. But the legislature sought precedent for declining the resignation and pushing the case through the Massachusetts Senate. If tried and convicted there, Mr. Reading would be ineligible for public office in his State forever more...
...pronounced his treatment of Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular." In Tyler's time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
...farmers; the lightness of the vote beat Hoover; were he a potent vote-getter a big vote would have turned out; if ever there was a State where he should have been able to win it was Indiana, where Candidate Watson's local machine had been shockingly exposed as corrupt and Klan-ridden. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon executed for the Chicago Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover hot-footing it away from a spot labelled Indiana with his trousers clutched in his hands at the waist to keep them from falling...