Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican majority leader who would not have succeeded to the Speakership even under favorable circumstances was Connecticut's gangling Tilson. When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...
...trial in Manhattan last week for using the mails to defraud were Lynn E. W'olfe, onetime auditor of Joseph Pulitzer's estate, and Murray Olf, stock promoter. They were charged with mulcting investors in Southern Cities Supply Corp. of $1,700,000. An unexpected witness against them in Federal Court was Illinois' white-maned Representative Henry Thomas Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House. Democrat Rainey's story...
Last week white-haired Banker Stuart heard that the Blaine-made storm was about to break. In selling $13,500,000 worth of Wardman bonds the house had sold $200,000 in the Senator's home state, thus making possible a "use of the mails to defraud" charge. Anxious to protect his firm from the criticism which is aroused by any legal action, Mr. Stuart hurried to Washington, asked President Hoover to intervene. He was referred to Attorney General Mitchell who refused to act. Returning to Chicago, he prepared to face what he felt sure was a "frame...
Just as Mr. Stuart expected, the indictment charged him and five of his executives with using the mail to defraud. The indictment was issued in Chicago, home office of Halsey, Stuart & Co. Banker Stuart and his two indicted Chicago partners promptly surrendered and posted a bond guaranteeing their appearance in Milwaukee where the trial will be held...
...lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that pierces the boldest Congressman. His salary...