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Updated: May 18, 2025
It is not too much to say that today no daily newspaper in any large American city dares to attack the emoluments of the Catholic Church, or to advocate restrictions upon the ecclesiastical machine. As I write, they are making a new Catholic bishop in Los Angeles, and all the newspapers of that graft-ridden city herald it as an important social event.
Guffey, the man who had taken charge of Peter, was head of the secret service of the Traction Trust, and the big fellows had put him in complete charge. They wanted action, and would take no chances with the graft-ridden and incompetent police of the city.
No, I'm not raving; there have been times when I've felt myself slipping times when I've been tempted to get down and fight with the weapons that everybody fights with in this God-forsaken, law-breaking, graft-ridden commonwealth!" Gantry had risen and he was slowly shaking his head. "You're hot now and with good enough cause, I guess.
There are mounting pressures by some members to devalue the common currency. Others sternly resist it. Many of the prospective members of this union fancy the CFA franc even less than the EU fancies their capricious and graft-ridden economies. But an ECOWAS monetary union could constitute a serious and more economically coherent alternative to the CFA franc zone.
His face looked hard and repulsive, like the face of a reckless, intolerant, whisky-drinking captain of police in a graft-ridden district. He closed the door with his back as he entered. "You are Ned Nestor?" he asked of the officer. The latter pointed toward Ned. "That child!" exclaimed the newcomer.
Germany's militarism, England's navalism, Russia's autocracy, France, graft-ridden in high places and struggling for rehabilitation after a century of war and, underneath it all, bearing it on bent shoulders, men like this German prisoner, alone in his room and puzzling it out!
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