Word: corruptible
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morris Hillquit, the Latvian-born Manhattan lawyer whose political history is that of the U. S. Socialist party since 1888 (when he was 19), made a "keynote" speech attacking the corrupt, reactionary Republicans and Democrats. "Only a party like ours," he said, "can be relied on to cleanse this immense cesspool of political corruption...
...Candidate Smith was reported to have trounced at county conventions last fortnight, disputed the Smith victory and scented a "plot." In the U. S. Senate up stood James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, and denounced the Smith campaign fund as the "most corrupt ever used in a Presidential campaign." Senator Heflin wanted the Senate to investigate. He said: "I want to get Jimmy Walker first. He is the slickest eel in the pond." Mayor Walker of New York ignored Senator Heflin. From Iowa came the Smith men's report of expenses: about...
...Candidate Woollen, in Republicanly corrupt Indiana, Candidate Reed sent a telegram asking permission to go there and speak, not for delegates but to "be of service to the party. That is my sole object." Candidate Woollen wired back: ". . . We all will gladly join in welcoming...
Indeed, to its spiritual leaders. Sodom and Gomorrah appear as naught beside Chicago, which is anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence...
...specially flayed Secretary Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel...