Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...years later I became interested in the situation in St. Louis, where Mr. Folk was investigating the corruption in the board of aldermen. The aldermen confessed who had bribed them and it was found that they made up the ablest, most courageous, and most enterprising citizens of the city, as had been the case in New York. They were after franchises and grants,--in other words, privileges. Then I went up to Minneapolis and found the condition of corruption the same. Here they had gone still further and criminals were invited to come to the city to do their work...