Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...type of securities it would offer to the public); therefore disposed of them to people who knew the risk and could afford to take it; probably would not have done so except at cost. Q. Was not the offer of such shares at wholesale prices a kind of bribe to get favors from public and corporate officials? A. No. The shares were only offered to clients and friends, including retired public men; it was not Morgan's fault if its clients and friends included a number (such as Charles Francis Adams. William Woodin, Norman H. Davis) who later held...
...serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold to be first War Minister of the independent Manchukuo puppet state. Next he slipped off to remote Northern Manchuria and announced his undying opposition to Japan again; this time, according to legend, accepting a few contributions from Soviet sources (TIME, April...
...unnamed lawyer was the man who first tempted him. Mr. Throop confessed. The lawyer offered a $5,000 bribe in behalf of a tax-burdened firm. "I refused even to touch it," said Mr. Throop. "After that he began to cultivate me. He was very nice and subsequently he took me out several times in a motorboat. Later I took $1,500 from...
Specifically, the most recent White paper of the British diplomats charged the Bolsheviks with third-degree methods, day-long cross-examinations, and attempts to bribe Russians who were to pass on the work done by the Vickers Company. The embassy vehemently declares that the confessions signed by two of the British suspects were wrung out of them only after Mediaeval tortures and the strain of continuous questioning. In reply the Soviets have, of course, denied these allegations and reasserted that the men will be brought to public trial to answer the official charges...