Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After ten weeks of stormy trial, Chicago's John Bain, 64-year-old founder of a chain of twelve small banks that failed at one crack last year (TIME, June 22, 1931), was last week convicted of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Scottish immigrant, onetime plumber, Bankster Bain had prospered in real estate, then branched into banking. Before the Depression, his Midas reputation spread widely among the clerks and laborers of Chicago's Southside districts. Unsound real estate promotions, wholesale juggling of assets among his various banks, whisked over his house of cards. When the banks crashed with deposits...
...eager to train her children for the stage, saved money for Chico's piano lessons. Soon he was able enough to play in cheap cinema theatres. Harpo, two years younger than Chico, looked exactly like him. He could play two tunes on the piano. They enabled him to defraud theatre managers who had hired Chico. He went to work in jobs that Chico had secured, four times received a week's wages before he was discharged. The fifth theatre manager, forewarned, recognized Harpo by a wart on his nose. Harpo was thrashed...
...state the facts squarely and at once was London's Financial News which declared, "There is reason to fear America may not take too kindly to an arrangement which so blatantly passes the buck to her and which she may regard as little short of a conspiracy to defraud...
Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend...
...Walter Bagehot. These famous essays, it may be noted, first appeared in 1867; and most of the contrasts which the author made were to things American. In the essay entitled "Its Supposed Checks and Balances" I find the following words: "The Americans now extol their institutions, and so defraud themselves of their due praise. But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation in action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours...