Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meredith Nicholson, Indiana novelist of national repute:f "'The Ku Klux Klan and its brood-corrupt politicians-have cost Indiana at least a billion dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that...
...putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing Justice in its course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis...
Highmindedness on Page 12, corrupt quackery on Page...
...Party over the Liberals at the last election (TIME, June 7). Actually the Bratianos stepped out of office as Liberals only to send in their henchman Premier Averescu as a pretended exponent of the People's Party. That is to say, theRumanian oligarchy control the incredibly corrupt electoral machinery of the country and continue to set up in office whom they please under what political label suits them. It suited them to raise the number of People's Party Deputies at the last election from ten to a two-thirds majority of the entire Chamber which numbers...
...declares that they are guilty of all the foregoing charges and a great many more; as many, to be precise, as he finds necessary to keep the pages of his cultural magazine filled to over-flowing. Now Dr. Meiklejohn has summed Americans up as a race of unintelligent, unkind, corrupt, debased, miserly people...