Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...
Sued. Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior; by the U. S. Government to recover $158,127 in back taxes plus $77,198 penalties, on monies (including a $100,000 bribe) unreported in his income tax returns but proven to have been received by him from Oilmen Edward Laurence Doheny and Harry Ford Sinclair...
...counsel to prosecute the Oil Scandals. Appointed by President Coolidge in 1924, confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 68-to-8, he succeeded in voiding the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working prosecutor who dug up new evidence in the oil scandals and integrated...
Great Battles. Chinese wars are fought with three weapons: 1) Stupendous bribes, actually running into millions of dollars in cold cash; 2) Grossly exaggerated press communiqués that one's own army is sweeping all before it; 3) Men, hundreds of thousands of poor, illiterate fellows, fighting on one side one day, on the other the next, as instructed by their bribe-pocketing officers. All this has gone on until it has become a system, sanctified by custom, employed as a matter of practical necessity by Chinamen otherwise great and good...
Chiang countered Yen's boast by announcing that his airplanes were wiping out the enemy wholesale, though admitting their superiority in machine gun fire. All this, of course, was merely overture. As a general thing Chinese wars last until stopped by the winter rains or some particularly monumental bribe...