Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egon Seefehlner had picked almost anyone but Socialist Deputy Berthold Koenig to bribe last week he would still have his job as General Director of Austria's Federal Railways; Italy's alliance with Hungary would be more effective; Hungary would soon have 50,000 rifles; Austrian railroads would be embarked on a profitable if illegal business; France and Britain would continue to believe that they had nipped an international plot...
...months, and last week Left-wing Deputies in the Cortes were shouting loudly for a vote on the bill, a hefty item in the pre-Revolution program against His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII. The shouting Deputies claim the franchise was illegal, that it was obtained only after a thumping bribe was slipped to "a high personage." Telefonica Nacional was given until Dec. 3 to file a formal protest. Granted in the days of Dictator Primo de Rivera, the franchise contract has been recognized by two succeeding governments including the present, which appointed a representative to the board. Premier Azana...
Charles Tillyer Trego, who made The Isle of Paradise, first saw Bali when he was working in Cunard Line's advertising department, preparing advertisements for world" cruises. He went back with a camera, found it easy to bribe natives with rings, shirts, hardware, to perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused...
...robbery. More probably it was premeditated dishonesty. Had Sharkey "won," there would now be little excuse for a third combat. As it is, the stage is set for another bout, to bring in gate receipts for the fighters, and lucre for any judges whom either manager may care to bribe. In athletics, too, New York seems to have "the best judges money can buy;" at best, they are unduly patriotic. If there were more Yankee triotic. If there were more Yankee shrewdness in the nation the promoters of boxing and wrestling would not batten so readily on the gullibility...
...Russell Hopton, rookies at the police training school, painfully learn their lessons from Sergeant Sidney Toler, get rough &-tough themselves. At the graduation dance Armstrong takes Hopton's best girl, Lila Lee, later marries her. The two cops work together in the same radio patrol car. Armstrong takes bribe money because his wife is going to have a baby. When Armstrong tries to drive the car out of the district to leave the bank-robbers a clear field, Hopton forces him to drive back, fight it out, get killed. Hopton is free to court the widow...