Word: corrupting
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...Chinese political leaders are not entirely antipathetic to these plans, but insist that if they are only left to themselves they can deal with the present political situation. They contend that foreigners only bolster up and corrupt incompetent governments by selling them arms and ammunition; then they blame the Chinese...
...Cannon. "So much for the weak Mr. Bryan. Now for the corrupt Joe Cannon...
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was elected to the United States Senate in 1889. He remained there until 1902 when Mark Hanna "raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota...
...Hanna. "Mr. Hanna was furious at what I had said about him and he determined that he would have revenge! My term in the Senate would expire in 1901, and Mark Hanna made up his mind to prevent my reelection. Mr. Hanna raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota. ... I was very badly beaten in the election...
...Mexico, Obregon was threatened from front and rear. There were the "reactionaries"-old Spanish landlords who resented the new ideas of liberty, corrupt officials, the rich Catholic Church. On the other side were red radicals so drunk with revolution that there seemed to be no chance of getting them sober before they set the house on fire...