Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft-Hartley law, called "the $64 question." Chairman Kersten said that all nine would be cited for contempt of Congress, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Readmitted to the courtroom, Witness Osman shouted that the committee's action reflected "the corrupt, degenerate mentality of men who have made the House of Representatives a house of ill repute...
...clumsy, big-nosed and dull-eyed, North dozed quietly while Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Chatham and Barre hurled at him some of the greatest invective in English. He admired their eloquence; sometimes he even applauded, but he regarded their speeches generally as so much windy verbiage. Though his ministry was corrupt, he was personally honest, went into debt, and wept in the House of Commons over his poverty. When he heard the news of Yorktown, he staggered as though shot, cried: "Oh God, it is all over...
...casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence...
...ordered the Soviet School closed, and the 45 schoolkids (children of Russian diplomats and clerks) returned to Russia. In New York and London, other Soviet youngsters had also received their marching orders. By keeping them in separate schools, the Soviet government had tried to insulate their innocents abroad from corrupt and corrupting Western ideas. Apparently Moscow now thought that the only place they would really be safe from capitalist contamination was back home...
...Colonels' Revolution that overturned the corrupt, dictatorial regime of President Ramón Castillo, General Arturo Rawson had been one of the few devotees of democracy. For three days, five years ago, he had been President of Argentina. Rawson had passed quickly into history, a black-suited figure destined to spend his days amid the Jockey Club's splendors, while one of the obscure figures of the revolution, a man named Juan Domingo Perón, made the country over...