Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren T. McCray, sentenced in 1924 to ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud...
Last week, big blossom Harry Micajah Daugherty ("the original Harding man"), onetime (1921-24) Attorney General, and lesser blossom Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, were to go on trial in the Federal Court in Manhattan for conspiracy to defraud the Government of their "unprejudiced services" by accepting a bribe of $391,000 in the American Metal Co. case. The charges which they will have to explain...
Last week Mr. Morse lost his attempt to avoid standing trial for using the mails to defraud. Said special Assistant Attorney General Dobyns: ". . . Judge Taft said he agreed to free Morse [from the Atlanta Penitentiary years ago] and Morse agreed to die in six months...
Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...
Passed without discussion or a record vote a bill to prohibit any extraordinary appeals in the trials of Albert B. Fall, Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny for conspiracy to defraud the Government. (Bill went to the House...