TWAIN QUOTE (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Note that the article also antedates "sugaring" = "bribing"; OED has
1891.
OED has "the needful" and "stuff" in the sense of money, but not with
the specific sense of a bribe.  OED has "swag" as the sense of
ill-gotten money, but again, not specifically as a bribe.

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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> > _Daily Evening Bulletin_, (San Francisco, CA) Wednesday,
> October 17,
> > 1866; pg. 3;  col A
> >
> > "Political Corruption in England " [from the NY Times, no author
> > cited] " "I call a man honest," said a New Jersey politician, "who,
> > when he is bought, <i> stays bought</i>." "
> >
> > I cannot find the corresponding story in ProQuest NY Times.
>
> New York Times, Sep. 8, 1866, p. 4, col. 6 Proquest Doc ID
> 83458476 Title is "An Astonishing Display of Corruption"
> (misspelled by ProQuest as "...Corraption") Also here:
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E3D7133DE53
BBC4053DFBF66838D679FDE
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