Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhortation made sense to London's Protestant merchants, who saw in every Cavalier excess the worldly hand of the Papal archfiend. It found the same response in all who refused to allow Royalist glamour to blind their eyes to the King's infinite capacity for treachery, deceit and absolutism. The Roundheads' chosen poet, John Milton, sang them no sparkling songs; he merely compressed their deadly earnestness into a few short lines culled from Seneca...
...much business and industry is run as an old family affair, grossly inefficient, protected by high tariffs. Yet Galo and his successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says. "I have given the press free rein...
...FRAUD AND DECEIT" is charged by SEC against Reynolds & Co., one of biggest brokerage houses. Chief charge in hearings opening this week: a few Reynolds employees in California touted cheap mining stocks that later slumped. Reynolds expresses "surprise and shock" at case; the men under fire are no longer with firm...
...fire (TIME, July 14), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn decided to fire Director Rouben Mamoulian.Reason: "Differences of opinion." "I have the greatest respect for Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that he be "identified publicity-wise as the sole creator of Porgy and Bess, and thereupon...
LOUIS WOLFSON got out from under SEC charges of manipulating American Motors Co. stock by signing consent decree pledging not to perpetrate "fraud or deceit" on future buyers of A.M.C. shares. SEC action was light wrist slap for Wolfson, who made about $1.7 million in A.M.C. stock dealings, now avoids a public airing of his deals. But in future attempts to move in on corporations, Raider Wolfson probably will have to show on his proxy that he was once restrained by SEC for fraud...