Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...burden of unearthing the violation as well as of arresting the violator. There is no active public sentiment behind the law demanding its enforcement and according to District Attorney Jerome, there are 250,000 people ready to violate the law. Yet again the instrument of enforcement, the police, is corrupt and accustomed to receive money in return for protection. Still further there are 13,000 saloons and only 2,500 policemen on duty at one time. Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst shows how the illegal sale goes on outside of saloons when an attempt is made...
...poetry of the number is good. "December," by Warren Seymour Archibald, is well-imagined and well-expressed. There is certainly real and deep poetic thought in "Corrupt," by Henry Wyman Holmes--thought that in this instance is yet, perhaps a little incoherent in its expression. In "A Sunset," by Henry James Forman, a simple and pleasant imagination is simply expressed. "Calypso," by Lauriston Ward, surpasses the three poems mentioned above in both the aptness and music of its wording...
...ancestors would help in solving the recurring questions of the time, such as the race problem in the South, and the relation of capital and labor. Moral courage in public life is essential; for, referring to its absence he says: "As one example, take our attitude toward the corrupt use of money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money, and I fear we are rapidly destroying the possibility of such reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that...
...scene of the first act is laid in Villabossia, the capital of Cantalusia, a mythical but by no means ideal kingdom. It is governed by an incapable king under the control of a tyrannous "Boss," Count della Croca; it is patrolled by a corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into...
...John Jay Chapman '84 spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, on "Public Opinion." Mr. Chapman began by referring to the corrupt conditions prevailing in New York since 1871. Little by little, reform work has been taken up, at first, almost unconsciously, recently, with clear purpose and understanding. In former times people thought that their political duties ended with a little bribery of the tax collector; they never cared for whom they voted. Now, the whole system of modern reform is analogous to the religious reforms of the Middle Ages, and men go into politics for the sake...