Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick as Premier white-haired, sleepy-eyed Octavian Goga of the little National Christian Party. As a poet Octavian Goga's reputation rests largely on a series of translations of Hungarian epics. As a politician he won the awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week he whipped a Cabinet together which contained three...
Indicted. Walter Edmund O'Hara, slick little boss of the Narragansett Racing Association whose track was recently closed after a political squabble (TIME, Nov. 1), and four cronies including Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman: by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of having violated the Corrupt Practice Act. contributing almost $100,000 in twelve months "to committees and persons closely identified with political activities"; in Providence...
...Carter. And Jim, if he had lived in the Old South, would have been a sportsman instead of a frustrated adman and then manager of his Yankee father-in-law's diaper factory. And particularly, in the Old South there would have been no Yankee manufacturer to corrupt the South's younger generation with show-off social vulgarity...
...contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
...issue a restraining order against the ouster, which Presiding Justice Jeremiah E. O'Connell promptly vacated. Last week the Racing Division ordered the Narragansett Racing Association to a hearing on six charges whose sum was that the Association had not only obstructed the Division but was morally corrupt. Mr. O'Hara answered these charges point-by-point in the Star-Tribune, sparing no profanity when he came to describe the Governor and his allies...