Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...courts, New York's most colorful and wealthiest alleged racketeer-long, loose-jointed, big-mouthed Larry Fay, indicted a year ago for collecting "dues" from milk dealers (TIME, Oct. 29, 1929)-came into renewed prominence. He was not at either session in person. The Appellate Division, investigating corrupt city magistrates (TIME, Aug. 25), heard tell of a little black notebook in which Fay once kept useful telephone numbers. Hearings on milk rackets more recent than that for which Fay was indicted chanced upon evidence that he may be still the milk gangs' overlord. But observers thought it unlikely...
Lorenzaccio's Libretto proved to have greater distinction than its music. The central character is a henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio...
...because it wanted such publicity but because it could not avoid it under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, the Republican National Committee last week filed with Congress a statement of its political revenue from June to September, together with a list of its big contributing patrons. Total G. O. P. contributions reported...
...become so long that it can no longer lift its own weight and it is respectfully suggested that a Society be formed for the aid and guidance of corrupt magistrates and feeble minded legislators
...TIME, June 23 et seq.). But again the actual murder case was obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...