Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...appearance had been something of a sensation: it even outdrew the McCarthy investigation. Among Costello's hearers had been Chief of Police Edward J. Allen of Youngstown, Ohio, who had already told the committee: "If it wasn't for corrupt politicians, I might say Frankie Costello wouldn't be in the position he is today." Racketeers like Costello, he added, "all start out with a piece of lead pipe in their hands...
This fellow runs into an old friend at a high-class party. "Have you made it?" he asks. "He nodded. 'America,' he said simply. I grasped him by the shoulders and looked into his eyes. "Tell me, George, are you corrupted?' 'Mercy me, no,' he replied. 'I am daily nobler.' 'Oh, happy day!' I cried joyously. My worries were over; money did not corrupt. Now, without reservations, I could begin the long climb to riches. 'Tell me about your long, painful climb to riches,' I said. 'I married it,' said George...
...corrupt as ancient apples...
...concluded with a warning quotation from "an observer and teacher of many years ago." The Apostle Paul, writing to the Corinthians, had said: "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners...
...plan was a free-enterprising alternative to talk in New England of state or city development authorities to finance such projects. "No authority," says Cray, "could have built that heel plant for what it cost me. When something like this gets into politics, if it doesn't get corrupt, at best it gets wasteful and inefficient...