Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...racketeering, David Dubinsky raised the lament in the wilder ness heard by John Lewis in Atlantic City. Dubinsky and his fellow delegates from the International Ladies' Garment Work ers Union proposed a resolution giving the Executive Council of the Federation summary power to oust union officials guilty of corrupt practices or "moral turpitude." President Green throttled the idea, contending it would destroy the autonomy of unions. Dubinsky threatened to carry his resolution to the floor for a fight...
Thomas E. Dewey: "[The third-term movement] was conceived in secrecy, nourished on cynicism and reared in arrogance to its ugly maturity by the most corrupt elements of American political life...
According to Republicans, an irresponsible New Deal, filled with treachery, fostered by corrupt bosses, was making hash of the defense program, dragging the country into war, bankruptcy, dictatorship. According to Democrats, Republicans recklessly and deliberately falsified the record, and Willkie was an evasive trickster, under the thumb of the most corrupting influence in U. S. politics today, the utilities. Examples of extreme partisan bitterness...
...performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate himself engages in lofty speeches and expression about world leadership and his knowledge of foreign affairs...
Declaring that Baptism of Fire sequences might frighten prospective draftees, Mrs. Carroll had dismissed the new edition because: "The Board thinks it is psychologically bad for the people . . . has a tendency to corrupt and debase morals; and is not proper." The Court, finding that the Board had failed to act "arbitrarily or capriciously," decided it had no power to reverse the ruling. It further observed...