Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilienthal, meeting according to custom as a quorum in Chairman Morgan's absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead of by a condemnation commission. They capitulated when Chairman Morgan, who asserted that the claims represented a bald attempt to "defraud" the Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan of Director John W. Finch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines as conciliator, insisted on a condemnation commission. When last week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence by which...
...results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave for the first time "the real structure and principles of the League of the Iroquois." The book launched him on a career that made him ''the father of American anthropology" and "the greatest sociologist of the last century...
...Father Cox's contest look right to the U. S. Post Office Department. Day before the "Garden Stakes" was to close, Father Cox was arrested on charges of Pittsburgh's U. S. Attorney, released on $3,000 bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first before I fail these good people...
...Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never in any manner, shape or form-everything I did for them was gratis and in their own interest...
...under suspicion by the Law. In copying figures to a monthly report, I made a mistake and now I am required to send affidavits stamped by a notary public (for which 50? is charged), stating my reasons for the mistake and swearing that I am not trying to defraud the Government by paying them 2/10 of a cent too much...