Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Republicans, an irresponsible New Deal, filled with treachery, fostered by corrupt bosses, was making hash of the defense program, dragging the country into war, bankruptcy, dictatorship. According to Democrats, Republicans recklessly and deliberately falsified the record, and Willkie was an evasive trickster, under the thumb of the most corrupting influence in U. S. politics today, the utilities. Examples of extreme partisan bitterness...
...performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate himself engages in lofty speeches and expression about world leadership and his knowledge of foreign affairs...
Declaring that Baptism of Fire sequences might frighten prospective draftees, Mrs. Carroll had dismissed the new edition because: "The Board thinks it is psychologically bad for the people . . . has a tendency to corrupt and debase morals; and is not proper." The Court, finding that the Board had failed to act "arbitrarily or capriciously," decided it had no power to reverse the ruling. It further observed...
...Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the. . . ." Horrified, a studio employe grabbed the phonograph arm, moved it back a notch or two. Promptly into the same groove went the voice of Harold Ickes: "Moe Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt -one. . . ." Although WXYZ immediately aired an explanation, some people in Detroit were convinced that Secretary Ickes stuttered...
...York's old Samuel Seabury, pompous, churchly lawyer. Willkie welcome: "I consider Judge Seabury one of the most distinguished men in the country in cleaning up corrupt political machines in our big cities...