Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conscience. Wrote Judge Knox: "In my judgment, however, Levy, in mind, heart and action, was venal and corrupt. . . . By virtue of the statute of limitations, he cannot here be prosecuted, but he can and will be disciplined. The discipline to be administered will be his disbarment from further practice before this court...
Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
...only three generations of three prolific families, together with in-laws, but concubines, servants, friends and enemies as well. What makes Author Lin's "little talk" coherent is the central position of the Yao family. Through their connections with the Tseng and New families, with honest and corrupt officials, big business, scholars, intellectuals, black sheep, third-generation revolutionists, ruined Mandarins, singsong girls, peasants, the Yao family get an extraordinarily diverse view of the revolutionary history of their time...
...semi-profile view of a nude model, by Carlisle Blackwell, Jr., leaves little to the imagination. Leahy described it as "indecent" and "tending to corrupt the morals of youth" in his complaint to the New England News Company...
...Trotskyites disapprove most vigorously of Mr. Browder's Stalinism and we have been the victims of much abuse on his part. But this will never prevent us from demanding free speech for any working-class organization, however corrupt or degenerated it may be. We think Mr. Greene made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind...