Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northwest Quebec, filed a Trade Commission registration in February covering an issue of 350,000 shares at $1 par. The Trade Commission charged that C. Morrison Smith & Co., underwriters of the issue, had sold some 45,000 shares at 65? by means of '"devices, schemes, or artifices to defraud, or by means of untrue statements of material facts. . . ." Among the charges was one to the effect that C. Morrison Smith & Co. had solicited one C. Henry Eilertsen of Philadelphia by telephone in April, declared that Golden Quebec shares would rise $1 within four weeks. Speculator Eilertsen, who is office...
...Chicago has made a Roman Holiday of the return of this 74-year-old man to the city he calls home. I do not know Mr. Insull, but, although I lost in his company, yet I feel his motive was not to defraud. He was a victim of the times. He is not the only one in these United States. . . . And how soon Chicago has forgotten Mr. Insult's benefits to the city!! This man is being crucified before he has an opportunity to testify...
Last week Daddy Warbucks was on trial "for conspiracy to defraud...
...fourth day Samuel Insull was arraigned in Federal Court on charges of using the mails to defraud, and of infringement of the Bankruptcy Act. He pleaded neither guilty nor not guilty but submitted that he had been shanghaied from Turkey and was therefore not subject to the Court's jurisdiction...
...Nobles of the Sublime Order of the Nile and Knight of the Distinguished Service Order of Ethiopia. On the side he sold stock in his Black Star Line and for that the U. S. Government tried and convicted him in June 1923, for using the mails to defraud. Outside the court one Negro woman fell on her knees. Another walked up to her, slapped her hard. "Get yourself up from there, you crazy lunatic. That big fat bum ain't wuth praying for. He done beat me out of my life's savings." When Garvey...