Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...politicians regard the college men as theorists, while the college professors regard men in public life as corrupt and insincere. Professors are dependent upon the Governing Board for their very means of existence, and the board in turn is dependent upon large donations for the support of the University. Is it likely, then, that the public should have much confidence in this Faculty, which is so directly under the control of the rich...
...most important accomplishments of the women of San Francisco was the recall of Judge Weller, a corrupt police court magistrate. From him it was impossible for wronged girls to get any justice whatever, and the purely nominal bail of the wrong-doors was fixed at anywhere from $50 to $150. In face of the opposition of wealth, organized labor, and the newspapers, the women concentrated their efforts in putting the recall into effect. To the consternation of San Francisco, Judge Weller was recalled and since then a change has swept through every political office in California, forcing the holders...
...Government in refusing to sell for a nominal price the coal lands in Alaska which it still owns. While the United States Bureau of Mines does not have police power over these lands, the speaker argued that if the lands were entrusted to the supervision of the states alone, corrupt political influence could soon place the mines entirely within the control of private corporations...
...superhuman. Mr. Carb has bravely faced the truth that the problem is never quite so simple. His young heroine begins as a worshipper of her uncle, the boss Dan Magee, who seems so strong and generous; and only gradually she comes to suspect that the system he personifies is corrupt. Nor does she gain an easy victory over him; indeed, at the end of the play, she herself realizes that to overturn a power rooted in the craven nature of the people, is a work of incalculable slowness. Magee, too, is a complex character, in whom sincerity and trickery...
...plan has been eminently successful in Oregon. Measures which the legislature would not consider have been inaugurated and passed by the initiative and referendum. A total of 102 acts passed by the people, include the adoption of home rule for cities, proportional representation, woman's suffrage, corrupt practices act, and ballot reform...