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176: 64:'s administration and city council. Twenty-six indictments were made, of which fifteen were guilty and seven of those received prison sentences, including councilman Harry York. 246: 41:
Ben T. Huiet told the city council he had heard that payment of $ 3,500 was asked for in order to approve electrical wiring that had been installed in the new
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had prided itself for a relatively corruption-free government throughout its history, but this changed in the 1920s. On November 18, 1929,
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began the lengthy investigation during which, more than a thousand witnesses were called to look into the Mayor
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William Berry Hartsfield and Atlanta Politics: The Formative Years of an Urban Reformer, 1920-1936,
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was a corruption scandal that erupted in 1930 which generated 26 indictments and earned a
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category for "a successful municipal graft exposure and subsequent convictions."
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The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 4 (WINTER 2000), pp. 651–676
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grand jury to investigate. Foreman Thomas Lyon and Solicitor General
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The press coverage earned Howell and the Atlanta Constitution the
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Solicitor General Boykin went on to break up Atlanta's
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