Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election expenses. No governor became excited over the corrupt practices act (limiting campaign expenses), but a onetime governor, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an honorary member of the Conference, flayed Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and included in his caustic words Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. The Conference listened, decided that candidates for office who had knowingly violated the corrupt practices act should not be allowed to hold their seats, thus begging the question and naming no names...
...half a dozen years the newspapers of Indianapolis have printed almost daily stories of the degradation of public office?. . . We have had one shameful thing after another and the end is not yet. . . .We seem to have placed ourselves in the unenviable category of Philadelphia-a city corrupt but contented...
...justice, across the state line in Ohio, lent color to a case which, originating as a question of freedom of the press, had ramified, as the press had intended it should, into a question of curruption in high office. . For three years Editor Dale had attacked Judge Dearth as corrupt. His Honor, the Post-Democrat said, was conniving at the administration of city officials who countenanced organized vice in Muncie. Outwardly, His Honor was trying to make a record in juvenile cases; to make "goats" of a few bootleggers and criminals. His Honor was picking and packing juries, said...
Then Pat Harrison, Mississippi funnyman, proceeded to pour salt on the wounds, said: "Let him [David A. Reed] go back and receive the cheers of the thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair...
...Turkish Civil Service still remains lamentably corrupt; but the Departments of Justice and Education have been so improved as to be unrecognizable...